Does Listening To Bimbo Talk Show Hosts Fry Your Brain?
The other day, I was listening to a bimbo talk show host and noticed that within about six sentences he'd committed more logical fallacies and told more half-truths or lies than I usually do within a month. It made me diszzy trying to keep up with him!
I have also noticed that a friend of mine who listens for hours each day to bimbo talk show hosts has lost a lot of his ability to reason well over the years, even though he was once a very good mathematician and logician. I sometimes wonder if there isn't a connection between listening to bimbo talk show hosts and becoming de-sensitized to logical fallacies and sloppy reasoning. Just a hunch -- I have no real evidence for it apart from personal experience. But what do you think?
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Then I came back from where I'd been.
My room, it looked the same -
but there was nothing left between
The Nameless and the name.
- Leonard Cohen.
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