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The Modern Menace of Logical Fallacy
The media landscape is dotted by landmines of logical fallacy. Don’t be fooled.
At the risk of employing one logical fallacy to support another, it may be only slightly hyperbolic to suggest logical fallacies are destroying lives and society.
It might not even be an exaggeration to say logical fallacies are the one true mortal enemy of mankind, with us from the beginning, our only natural enemy, the only predator we need fear.
Ourselves.
Of the different types of conflicts in literature, as in life, “man against man,” is usually an offshoot of a deeper conflict: “man against himself.” In the story of humanity, “man against nature,” mostly sailed away forever sometime between the advent of the internal combustion engine and the invention of the pentium processor.
These days, it’s normally just us against ourselves. We are constantly striving to tame what Buddhists call the, “Monkey Mind,”- that is, our brain’s tendency to spin constantly like a malfunctioning slot machine.
AI might not replace human beings in the workforce as quickly as we fear. AI can’t even produce realistic cat videos, to say nothing of being able to predict the intricacies and vagaries of the human mind. Computer learning algorithms haven’t got a clue; mostly because we humans haven’t…