Simpleology


Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

by Mark Joyner

 

Resources

The WebCockpit

Logical fallacies. This site gives an exhaustive list of fallacies, categorized within a unique taxonomy.

The 36 Strategems

Twenty-Five Ways to Suppress the Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (http://www.proparanoid.net/truth.htm)

1) Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

2) Become incredulous and indignant

3) Create rumormongers

4) Use a straw man

5) Sidetrack opponents with name-calling, ridicule

6) Hit and run

7) Question motives

8) Invoke authority

9) Play dumb

10) Associate opponent charges with old news

11) Establish and rely on fall-back positions

12) Enigmas have no solution

13) Use Alice in Wonderland logic

14) Demand complete solutions

15) Fit the facts to alternative conclusions

16) Vanish evidence and witnesses

17) Change the subject

18) Emotionalize, antagonize, and goad

19) Ignore facts, demand impossible proofs

20) False evidence

21) Call a grand jury, special prosecutor

22) Manufacture a new truth

23) Create bigger distractions

24) Silence critics

25) Vanish

Plus, 8 Traits of the Disinformationist

1) Avoidance

2) Selectivity

3) Coincidental

4) Teamwork

5) Anticonspiratorial

6) Artificial emotions

7) Inconsistency

8) Newly discovered; time constant

 

How to Solve It, by G. Polya

1) Understand the problem

2) Devise a plan

3) Carry out the plan

4) Look back

 

1) Understand the problem

2) Devise a plan

3) Carry out the plan

4) Look back

 

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

 

Avoiding the pitfalls of bivalent (black/white) logic:

1) "So far as I know"

2) "Up to a point"

3) "To me"

4) The What Index--are you overgeneralizing?

5) The When Index--the truth of a matter may depend on the timeframe in question

6) The Where Index--the truth of a matter may depend on a particular location or incident

 

The Rules of Utilitarian Model Flexibility

1) Thoughts are not things--thoughts are models (incomplete and in flux)

2) We have the ability to choose our models

3) These models can be used as tools (either for you or against you)

4) Utility is the measure of a tool's value

5) Utility is not the same thing as truth

6) No model is absolute

7) No two people share the same model

8) Models are not mutually exclusive

9) Models do not have to be accepted in whole

 

Simpleology

1) The First Law: The Law of Straight Lines

2) The Second Law: The Law of Clear Vision

3) The Third Law: The Law of Focused Attention

4) The Fourth Law: The Law of Focused Energy

5) The Fifth Law: The Inescapability of Action/Reaction