Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Political Mirroring Volume V: A Parlor's Parlay

Volume V: A Parlor’s Parlay

Maxim: “Avoid political discussions when everyone’s society cannot receive a guaranteed benefit.”

The Highlights of Abstract Mirroring Volume V:

  • Reminder: Belief acceptance + Context=Harmony.
  • The Parlay: the content of irrational speech, which is determined by the intent of the speaker, the actual speech as communicated, and the reception of the audience.
  • The Parlor: the context of the speech, including all of the physical objects, places, times, structures real or virtual (i.e. in-person closed convention or Facebook “like” buttons), and any environmental factors that are part of how a political debate ensues.  Not a utopia or dystopia or some ideal environment where arguments are eliminated for being false or where the rhetoric used convinces all participants of some common Truth. 
  • A Big SAC: S+A=C.   Speech Intent (S) + Audience Reception (A) = Code (C) as either Green, Yellow, or Red Speech.  A means to evaluate the effect of a Parlay, based on the subjective value judgements of the speaker’s intent plus the subjective value judgements as to how the message will be received.
  • The Parlay 6: The inverse of Cicero's rhetorical elements, which indicate speech that should be mirrored.  They are: rote copying of others, reactionary planning based on others, trolling, suppressive delivery towards others, Total Recall, and selective amnesia. 
  • Silence Coefficient: The positive, neutral, or negative multiplying effect of not engaging in speech.  Essentially, the speaker's fight or flight response, or a fly on the wall if assuming, being granted, or being unaware that they are not allowed spectator status.  Silence can be positive speech if it prevents an irrational reaction and/or stigma.  It can also be negative if the conversation demands speech or if silence would equal violence (SHIVs) to potentially harmful opponents.  Dependent on the context of the conversation. 
  • Captivity Deduction: Mirrors are by their nature rational debaters or at least they believe they are.  Therefore, because of this belief, they are a captive audience because they establish an insufferable level of irrationality and a lack of value in continuing the conversation, yet they must endure it and mirror the offenders so long as needed to avoid stigma. 
  • Audience Experience Paradox:  The dilemma that a person’s experience seems authentic because they alone experienced it, but it is deemed inauthentic because it does not fit another person's or group’s subjective interpretation (pathos) of what an objectively good, ethical, and virtuous experience should be. 
  • LyE’s- An identity property of sorts whereby a debater is reduced to using ones’ life experience as the sole basis of an argument, used as a logical fallacy, meaning there is no way to disprove something that no other person can live through, thus shutting down the conversation. 
  • Hystorical LyE’s:  The idea that all of the positive or negative aspects of a version of history can be called upon to make a person’s lived experience invulnerable to opposition.  This subjective perception allows them to use an interpretation of history as a suit of armor around their world. 
  • Morgan Snares- A type of conversation trap built on a disprovable LyE.  Defined as using one LyE to undermine or eliminate another person’s rational opinion about something or someone.  Named after Piers Morgan’s debate with Alex Beresford about the British Royal Family’s racism controversy, an otherwise irrelevant topic to us, but useful only as a style of logic-busting that prevents any counter-argument.   
  • Pronoun Flares:  Warning: this trigger warning may trigger a warning trigger.  Some content may or may not be deemed as violating the Politics of Mass Abstraction’s community of one standard.  In a “Pronoun Hoedown,” where the situation has the potential for utmost cancellation and stigma, Pronoun Flares are the extremely negative reaction to the use, misuse, or non-use of small words in place of nouns related to social conceptions that lead to stigma. 
  • Hexer:  The “Yin” of reacting to another person’s rejection of ones’ views.  This is the defensive, passive-aggressive side of responses whereby questioning a person’s speech necessitates a disproportionately negative response.  Also, a form of the "heckler's veto" where disruption is used to shut down undesired speech.  For example, provable accusations that another person is lying leads to calls for that accuser to be “cancelled” because of as yet unproven accusations of the original accuser’s racism and sexism.  
  • Doxer:  The “Yang” of opposing another person’s ability to respond; the aggressive silencers of speech, those pursuing Avenger Justice, who weaponize personal or sensitive information regardless of the actual views or culpability of their target.  The cause for their Justice is irrelevant, they are doxers because they use malicious and irrational tactics to suppress speech for the “greater good.” 
  • Cat-like Tread Debate Monster: an insidious type of Debate Monster, a hexer who hijacks a conversation after waiting in the wings after everyone’s cards have been presented.  They don’t have much to offer other than to sneak a win after others do the work. 
  • Parlor Feng Shui: The spatial structure of a conversation, its total environment, designed despite the creator's intent to imperfectly increase the positive or negative aspects of a conversation.  Some “parlors” (environments) like Twitter or Facebook are made to be restrictive of certain forms of speech depending on their content.  Like Feng Shui, the structure of a political conversation is often designed with the intent to have positive or negative effects on the participants in the conversation.