“Here is the short version of the Kool-Aid Fallacy: Cult … therefore Jim Jones … therefore mass suicide … therefore Kool-Aid. It’s astonishing how much of social media now revolves around simple word association sequences. Absolutely no thought goes into anything. No one ever delivers an actual argument. If they ever do attempt an argument, their punctuation, spelling, grammar, logic and general education are not up to the task, and soon dissolve into meaningless mush. But usually they just hurry on to the insults and ad hominem attacks, which is the part they love. Before long, the Kool-Aid fallacy is eagerly applied. Every argument should have a Dunning-Kruger quotient associated with it. Most people are 100% on the Dunning-Kruger scale. They imagine themselves geniuses, and geniuses dunces. As ever, they have inverted reality.”
Quote by Thomas Stark
Work
Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“Thalia ignored him as usual (which no doubt meant she thought he was as cool as ever).”
Source: The Lost Hero
Source: The Tyrant’s Tomb
Source: Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades
Source: Strength
Source: Attempted Poetry