Contemporaries of theme, Ideological disputes, Literalization of metaphor, Political marketing through News and Dilemmas

Contemporaries of theme, Ideological disputes, Literalization of metaphor, Political marketing through News and Dilemmas By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism

·       Every success at engineering consent impresses us with the potential of propaganda to manipulate public opinion.

Subtle fallacies

1)    Contemporaries of theme

·       Writers are categorized by an era so that readers can learn about all writers exist in a certain period of time; learning about contemporaries of an era is information; not knowledge. Knowledge is knowing the writer or writers those standout; it is knowing that enables one to separate individual from crowd.

Era must then be categorized by the themes as each era has one

dominant theme; readers can sort out writers not overwhelmed by overwhelming theme so that they can find in each era writers individualist in their approaches in a true sense of a word.

Writers must as well be categorized by themes: Writers of different voice that is not new in that era as heard before in previous era or writer of voice that is different because it is new. These contemporaries of themes are writers of their own voices: fresh, different and new. 

Fallacy: Sharing themes may not make all writers individualist in their approaches because approach that runs counter to dominant trend of one era may be comfortably in consonance to the temper of time in other era.  

2)    Ideological disputes Versus Border dispute   

·       We have the interesting situation in the world: ideological disputes cannot be resolved without border disputes and border disputes without ideological disputes.

Fallacy:  Ideological disputes can create border dispute but border dispute cannot create ideological dispute. Border dispute cannot only be created by ideological dispute and if not created because of ideological difference so can be resolved without reference to ideological dispute. Border dispute created by ideological dispute such as Kashmir issue between Pakistan and India can be resolved though ideological dispute remains unresolved (Muslim does not cease to be Muslim, and Hindu does not cease to be Hindu).  

3)    Literalization of metaphor   

·       It needs much time and effort to have ideologically close followers (those have deaf ears to ‘pernicious messages’) through indoctrination. Simple solution is to ensure that each follower has literally deaf ear.  

Fallacy: People need ears to listen messages calculated to brain washing and continue to need them to follow commands of their leader.

Political marketing through News     

·        Political marketing consultant terms its manipulation of news reported as the attempt to counter misinformation in the news by opponent, and thus manages to cast a favorable light on the actions of his party and paints opponent in the dark corner.

Political marketing through dilemmas     

Political marketing consultant creates dilemmas when he feels half way through his efforts that he cannot dislodge people from their entrenched beliefs: you love your religion for the right reason; it is your identity; and you care economy for the right reason; it ensures your survival. Capitalism is anyhow incompatible with religion.