The fake-false-binary fallacy
Truth vs Lie as a false binary is the heart of the post-truth / post-modernist denialism of reality
The false binary fallacy is of course a real danger and used in error and for fraud frequently.
People are pushed into choosing position A or B.
Case 1: A and B are both actually false
The Overton Window
A famous illustration of this concept is the question
“Have you stopped kicking your dog? Yes or No”
A more modern example is:
“Is your positive PCR test a false positive or a true positive?”
Both these contain, imply and assert silently as axiomatic an underlying incorrect assumption: X.
This is how the Overton Window works.
It encourages vigorous discussion over whether
A is True
or
B is True
or rather, it encourages a discussion over whether
A is True and X is true
or
B is true and X is true
In this case any percentage leaning ‘either way’ is encouraged too. Let’s be democratic.
The Overton Window appears to offer a more open, reasonable, inclusive, compromising assessment of this particular A / B dilemma.
People may hold mid-way positions.
But since X is woven into both A and B, the vigorous discussion becomes nothing more than the constant affirmation of the false X.
Case 2: A and B are both true to an extent
The False (strict) Binary Fallacy
In this most usual use of the term False Binary, The dichotomy between choosing A and B is stated to be delusional because “it’s a bit of both”. It’s somewhere in the middle.
“It’s the rain that makes the plants grow”
‘No, it’s the Sun”
The dangerous power of the False Binary is that it can fall victim to another dangerous axiomatic assumption:
The assumption that
This definitely is an example of this case 2 situation. “It’s somewhere in the middle.” Stop taking sides.
When there may be clear evidence - for a variety of reasons not examined by the “False Binary” callers - that this is actually a Case 3 situation. And they are broadcasting a fallacy - knowingly or unknowingly - in the name of calling out a fallacy.
Case 3: A is True, B is False
Reality Denial
Use of the
The Fake-False-Binary fallacy
When people say the following:
“Terrain versus Germ Theory is a false binary because it’s both the state of your body AND the virulence of invading pathogens that leads to disease”
They think they are calling out a false (strict) binary of type 2.
This is inevitably because they have not examined the evidence wearily and frustratingly offered over and over by everyone who for whatever reason ended up finding it.
What is really happening here is Reality Denial clothed in the language of calling out a False Binary
Truth / lie : The core True Binary
The heart of all discernment sanity, science survival and awareness is the distinguishing of Pink stuff from Green stuff. (See post in links)
Truth from [lies]
By putting the [ ] around lies, this signifies that intention is irrelevant.
A [lie] is any story presented as if it is truth.
A [lie] may be deliberate or not. It may be an honest report of trusted received wisdom and so not a lie.
But still a [lie]
Literally our whole ‘truther’ endeavour is based on the Big Question from our childhood.
“Now are you sure that is true….?
Or is it just a story?”
Lies, [Lies], beliefs, certainties, judgements, frameworks, dogma, fear, overthinking
These keep us from simple direct eye-to-eye I-to-I contact with our amazing fellows.
Postmodernism, The New Age…
The fashion now is to write your own reality
If I may pervert the perverted author of the Shakespeare plays:
There is nothing either true or false but that thinking makes it so
The Big Question has been binned.
Truth? Stories? Truth is stories! It’s all your stories. Reality is a mirror. Manifest your destiny! Don’t let anyone tell you what is True! There is a huge bank of pick and mix beliefs to choose from and combine. But don’t be constrained by those! Break all boundaries! There are no boundaries. Everything goes. Weave your universe!
Making truth fashionable again
This is the danger we face. They have engineered a total relativism.
Those of us who care must clearly distinguish and call out the truth from the chaff.
The worst error we can make is to hide the truth, distort the truth.
The Virus ‘Question”
This is clear cut a Case 3 situation as you could get.
QUESTION: Has there ever been any evidence that any of these genomes - assembled in silico through a process so ludicrous that makes most choke on their coffee when they understand it - any evidence any one has ever existed in physical reality - as a genetic fragment in a protein coat demonstrating pathogenicity, transmissibility, replication competency through cell machinery,
Or indeed
ANY ONE OF THE ABOVE?
FACTUAL ANSWER: No
That’s all there is to it.
People are aware of this fact or unaware of this fact. Some aware of it lie about this fact, some tell the truth. Some unaware unknowingly [lie] about this fact, some are quieter. But the fact remains.
I set up the VCF as a huge flag on a pole above this fact. If you are aware that pledging £1000 is a zero risk pledge, please do pledge.
Nothing to lose. Let’s get the figure to millions.
All the apologist positions for viruses crumble in the face of no-one being able to claim the (currently) £48,000
Please don’t present Truth / [lie] as a false binary
Sometimes A is true and B is false.
If a group of people point at hard evidence that this is the case.
Please don’t ignore it and carry on treating truth and lies as opinion. Sometimes it’s awareness. Due Diligence please.
What do you have to lose by opening the door and looking in the room. If there is no elephant there what have you lost?
But if the elephant is in there, trampling on millions of children across the world every day and telling people about it could help stop the carnage then you have everything to gain - for your children.
Time is short now. If they run another Plandemic they have a radically boosted set of laws restrictions and controls in place.
Last time will seem like a total walk in the park.
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I do share your frustration, Tim.
I am not privy to the internal workings of those who see the world differently from me, which is on the one hand, wonderful and on the other, maddening.
I’ve had no success, ever, in attempting to impose my beliefs on others.
Only they can make that choice.
Thank you for your impassioned clarity. Both passion and clarity are minimal requirements for progress from where we appear to be.
Tim,
Thanks for this well thought out and well written piece.
Self-analysis and critical thinking are not skills that one is born with. They require experience, keen observation, and the ability and desire to think beyond family and social boundaries.
I find that most people want to be told what to do and what to believe. This offers them comfort and a sense of community with likeminded thinkers regardless of the truth or objective reality.
Early on in the plandemic I was learning about things like PCR tests, Germ Theory, and the contagion narrative. I already had a strong sense of mistrust for allopathic medicine having done much research around the Rockefellers, their discrediting homeopathic remedies, and their insidious blueprint for co-opting and reestablishing the corrupt medical industry as we know it today.
I was plugged into podcasters like Steve Falconer (Spacebusters), Sean G. Turnbull (SGT Report), and Stew Peters (Stew Peters Network), guys who were actively ripping the sheets off of the Covid narrative with verifiable facts. At that time, I was amazed (not shocked) to hear them talk about friends, family, and colleagues who had turned that backs on them for doing so. This reinforced my firm belief that a) denial is more potent than family ties, and b) there is nothing more terrifying in this world than the truth, be it personal, cultural, national, global, or who we really are as human beings.
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