Alan: Global warming is accurately described by scientific principles that are incomprehensible to "the least intelligent."
Similarly, the principles underlying evolution and vaccination are somewhat more comprehensible but lamentalby these phenomena cannot be reduced to simple soundbites.
Hitler's observation on propaganda would be more accurately rendered: "All propaganda must be expressible in single sentences or single images.
Hitler's observation on propaganda would be more accurately rendered: "All propaganda must be expressible in single sentences or single images.
The greatest propagandistic obstacle to truth is that "Pyschological Projection" and "The Psychological Shadow" cannot be described in single sentences or images but requires multi-step syllogistic thinking that is beyond the reach of "the least intelligent" - and often challenges people of middling intelligence.
Furthermore, the challenge of complex, syllogistic thinking supposes that people can be motivated to think in the first place.
Furthermore, the challenge of complex, syllogistic thinking supposes that people can be motivated to think in the first place.
Since people are loathe to think, they rely on relatively random opinions
formulated in middle school and high school.
One man's "common sense" is another man's Armageddon.
And so it is that an increasing number of Armageddon cheerleaders
-- all across the Abrahamic spectrum --
are drooling for a "cosmic showdown."
According to Judeo-Christian scripture, here is what took place the last time
God arranged to purge the earth of evil:
"The Death of Epistemology"
"The Death of Epistemology"
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