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One of the things I find most depressing about 2020 is watching people at every level negotiating with the truth to land a point.
It& #39;s a rhetorical device that requires the user to make vast assumptions about their audience.
Will THIS change their mind? No. But an overstatement or obfuscation or omission will, and I& #39;m right, so it& #39;s worth it, because the upshot is that my audience will land on the truth.
Will THIS change their mind? No. But an overstatement or obfuscation or omission will, and I& #39;m right, so it& #39;s worth it, because the upshot is that my audience will land on the truth.
Probably it doesn& #39;t feel insulting or like an abusive power-play. It feels like war, it feels necessary. You do what you can to land on the truth.
But the moment you& #39;ve decided someone needs a lie instead of facts, you& #39;ve decided you& #39;re intellectually superior.
But the moment you& #39;ve decided someone needs a lie instead of facts, you& #39;ve decided you& #39;re intellectually superior.
I see it in the strangest of places.
I have a tumor on my pituitary; it nearly killed me last year. I& #39;m part of a few pituitary tumor support groups and in two of them is the same spirited debate: can we call our pituitary tumors "brain tumors?"
I have a tumor on my pituitary; it nearly killed me last year. I& #39;m part of a few pituitary tumor support groups and in two of them is the same spirited debate: can we call our pituitary tumors "brain tumors?"
Note: the pituitary gland is a useful lil guy that sits right in the middle of your noggin. It& #39;s right against your brain. But it& #39;s not brain tissue, which is important, because pituitary tumors are nearly never cancerous . . . a very different statistic than brain tumors.
This isn& #39;t to say that pituitary tumors can& #39;t have vast consequences (like I said, mine nearly killed me, and they blind others in short order). But the argument is that unless we call them brain tumors, people won& #39;t take us seriously enough.
