[MD] BBC documentary 'the trap'

[david buchanan]

Dearest darling Craig:

I think you and others are trying WAY too hard to find something wrong with that documentary. To the extent that it exposes and criticizes things you believe in, this is understandable. But it's just face-saving ego stuff and that is not intellectually respectable.
The Trap merely explains the suspicious, paranoid historical context (the cold war) in which a suspicious, paranoid theory of human behavior was able to take hold. This is not a syllogism of any type. It's just an observation of what occurred. It only connects the dots in a complex cultural situation, which has very little to do with any kind of logic.
And the responses to this documentary from right-wing apologists like yourself also have very little to do with logic.


 




> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:40:41 +0000
> From: craigerb at comcast.net
> To: moq_discuss at lists.moqtalk.org
> Subject: [MD]  BBC documentary 'the trap'
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> The trouble with the "documentary" 'The Trap' is that it relies on argument TYPE I rather than TYPE II: 
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> TYPE I) 
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> 1) Theory A is a Cold-War theory. 
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> 2) Cold-War theories are wrong. 
> 3) :. Theory A is wrong. 
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> TYPE II) 
> i) Theory A is a Cold-War theory. 
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> ii) Theory A is wrong. 
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> iii) :. Some Cold-War theories are wrong. 
> Craig 
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