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Richard A DeSourdis's avatar

The poet (and mentor to Eustace Mullins) described the bifurcation fallacy fairly succinctly-"The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth".

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Etienne de la Boetie2's avatar

I am adding that to my quote collection!

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tanzenkran's avatar

Also along the same line of thinking are themes common in books and movies. "Cops and Robbers" and heroic war stories get way more "air time" than is relatable to the average person. Where are the macabre vaccine injured stories on General Hospital?

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tanzenkran's avatar

It looks like I resorted to True Crime in my General Hospital example. 😞

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