The prevalence of anti-discourse discourse, of stories told only for the purpose of ideological prophylaxis — here’s something you definitely shouldn’t allow yourself to think about!
And then, having said at the top of the story that people on the right think we're living through mass formation psychosis **because Malone just said so**, she says this farther down in the same story, not noticing at all that she's just fatally undermined her opening claim:
"Discourse about mass formation psychosis has been bubbling up in far-right circles for a while. Malone himself has been talking about it for weeks. A book published in November makes the same argument that COVID has given rise to the phenomenon, which has various names, including mass delusional psychosis and mass hysteria."
People who don't INTEND logically consistent arguments -- people who are just making noise -- have no way of noticing that paragraph six shits all over paragraphs one and two. They're just typing up a set of slogans.
I welcome this sort of thing. It's so easily ridiculed, and it's so obviously ineffective. Each new instance is a new invitation to question the premise. They keep independently and unwittingly rediscovering the Streisand Effect.
And then, having said at the top of the story that people on the right think we're living through mass formation psychosis **because Malone just said so**, she says this farther down in the same story, not noticing at all that she's just fatally undermined her opening claim:
"Discourse about mass formation psychosis has been bubbling up in far-right circles for a while. Malone himself has been talking about it for weeks. A book published in November makes the same argument that COVID has given rise to the phenomenon, which has various names, including mass delusional psychosis and mass hysteria."
People who don't INTEND logically consistent arguments -- people who are just making noise -- have no way of noticing that paragraph six shits all over paragraphs one and two. They're just typing up a set of slogans.
I welcome this sort of thing. It's so easily ridiculed, and it's so obviously ineffective. Each new instance is a new invitation to question the premise. They keep independently and unwittingly rediscovering the Streisand Effect.