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I understand and agree from an all things being equal perspective. But thing are not all equal. I have worked with folks who could talk circles around a flock
by tejtm 5y ago
I understand and agree from an all things being equal perspective.
But thing are not all equal.
I have worked with folks who could talk circles around a flock of Toastmaster clubs and weaponizing words in meetings relaying on social norms of "civil" as cover happens.
The expected 10x effort to counter a falsehood can be inflated to 100x if it is dressed up real pretty.
A Volumocracy, where the more verbose or apparently civil sounding party
(not your stereotypical programmer) wins every argument might be a viable strategy when it is rhetoric, opinions, semi-solid-science (quagmire?)
but there is absolutely a place for; "No."
And though I agree more should be stated, I do strive to remain civil.
- nonrandomstring 5y ago> Volumocracy Nice. edit: Sorry to come back in edit but you just made me think of something. Britain still has an insidious class system. A top engineer I know, absolutely formidable in mind and manner, said that during a C-level meeting he'd been "outposhed" by some Rupert (apologies to any actual Ruperts). The tactic is: talk very loudly in a plumby offensively over-confident RP accent, with a slight snorting sneer. Boris Johnson is the paradigmatic example - all the more because he's actually a not-posh kid who got beasted at boarding school into some serious over-compensation.
- pjc50 5y ago> The expected 10x effort to counter a falsehood can be inflated to 100x if it is dressed up real pretty. This has become an overwhelming problem on the internet, and fundamentally it's why we have downvotes: it takes hundreds of keypresses and careful thought to counter nonsense or weaponized civility, and only one to downvote.