JBot Mania

When having a debate with someone (or all of society as it may appear at times) don’t cite specific information or those new fangled “numbers” people are using these days. Numbers can lie.  What you should do instead, is cite past examples when people were wrong. Don’t address the difference in methods used to arrive at a conclusion or differences in available data from one time to another, just cite the wrongness - because once you are wrong, you will always be wrong - even if you were not, in fact, wrong, but some guy, say, across the country, whom you have never met and who happens to be interested in the same things as you are is wrong. You might then, in fact, be doubly wrong… forever.

Believe me, this kind of point of view sounds pretty good to people in such a PC society - almost good enough to make them consider what you’re saying as refreshing, you know, because it’s contrary. You will definitely be the class risk-taker and people will hang on your words as if they come from some other orifice than where normal bullshit comes from.

Here’s an example situation:

“Honey, I think the milk is expired.”

“Darling, 10 years ago you thought the mayonnaise was expired and it wasn’t. I fail to see how you could possibly have a valid opinion about the milk today.”

“But it has already turned to cheese and the date on the bottle says last week.”

“Yeah well, sometimes those dates are wrong, and do you honestly know at what point you can really classify that as cheese? Look, you were wrong about the mayonnaise and I am affraid that that makes you wrong about the milk. It really is just that simple.”

God, I wish she knew just how WRONG she had been. Then she wouldn’t dare to be right. 

Our next lesson will be entitled, “The Willing Suspension of Disbelief and Other Coping Strategies For When You Are Not Wrong, Just Not Right”