One of the left’s current tactics is holding up absolute fruitcakes as spokesmen for policies, including insane policies, that purport to favor blacks in order to ‘address prior discrimination’. The left is presenting several ideas that may seem defensible on their own, but when you look at them together, closely, have implications deeply offensive to sanity and to good order. The left’s espoused race ideas make for a good case study. They are also deeply invested in dividing people in neat categories, and using whatever reality exists of that division for their own profit. And you have to think.Ī fractally wrong idea is one where not only is the basic argument wrong when taking it at face value, not only you will also arrive at a wrong answer if you take it apart and flip one piece, but you will find that there are several wrong answers depending on how deep you go. It’s also wrong at least 50% of the time, and often more. “The left believes this so the inverse must be true” is easy. Near two weeks ago, Sarah gave us an essay that made the following point, which deserves expansion. So– Dear Lord, I never thought I’d type this - below is Bob the Fool’s guest post.* SAHĪ Case Study in Thinking About Fractally Wrong Ideas by Bob Fool It’s just a cold, but I haven’t had one in years (I thought I did, but it was allergies) and it’s making writing very odd.) I’m trying to finish Bowl of Red under the handicap of Dan having shared his cold. His guest post below makes sense, though like some of my earlier ones it’s a ball of interconnected stuff and a bit labyrinthine. I don’t know if he’s getting saner, or if times– Well, yeah, times. Also, maybe it’s not the business of the US to ensure any such thing, unless our interests are at stake?”Īnyway, I count it as one of the scariest things about the last two years that Bob actually started making sense a remarkable number of times. Something like: “if it’s the business of the US to ensure peace in the world, wouldn’t it be easier to kill the rest of the world. You kind of needed to understand that to an extent Bob was measuring us, with those comments.Īnd yet there is often a point at the back of his crazier comments, that makes you think. To be fair, some of his crazier comments made all of us go “No, BOB!” Like when he suggested that we kill every foreigner or the like. During SP the other side used the fact I hadn’t banned him as ipso facto proof that I was the world’s worst person. For years, he’s vacillated between a sanish commenter and utter trolling. *Bob the Registered Fool needs no introduction.