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In which the | {{a|devil|}}In which the [[JC]] plays amateur sociologist in the Christmas pantomime. | ||
This I am making up from whole cloth: treat with due care. | |||
Now every opinionated windbag knows the experience of trying in vain to dismantle a transparently fatuous “political” argument. | |||
“Political” in the sense of being a generalised disposition attributable to a generalised class of people. These often ''are'' political dispositions, but need not be: “born-again Christians”, “conservatives” (with big or little “c”), socialists, [[bitcoin]] maximalists, Guardianistas libertarians — this kind of group. One to whom one might attribute a generalized position, or set of beliefs. | |||
Of course, the group is a [[narrative]], as is its putative agenda: unless someone has published manifesto, no two individuals in the group will share identical set of beliefs, and it may be that no single individual holds exactly the set of core beliefs ascribed to the group. As with all narratives, it is a filter on the noise of diversity to render a meaningful signal. | |||
The signal is often a phantom. In the same way that, in a group of 1000 people no individual will necessarily conform to the group’s average for height, weight, hand-size, inside seam, waist ''and'' chest measurement: the more dimensions you measure, the less likely that golden mean becomes.<ref>[[A.P. Herbert]]’s magical essay on the reasonable man in {{casenote|Fardell|Potts}} refers.</ref> | |||
Hence your struggle mounting an intellectual assault: your argument is deconstructs an average to which your particular opponent does not necessarily subscribe. Your intricate syllogisms snatch at thin air. | Hence your struggle mounting an intellectual assault: your argument is deconstructs an average to which your particular opponent does not necessarily subscribe. Your intricate syllogisms snatch at thin air. | ||