I am right and you are not!!!!! note on Bulverism

The affects of what Lewis cleverly calls Bulverism undoubtedly has invaded and infected almost every part of our daily lives. As it now seems, no one cares for well reasoned arguments any longer, as long as you are able to accuse and maliciously attack your competitions, you will always get want you want. Whether in philosophical debates, political campaigns or just your simple everyday commercial, it is clear making fallacious argument (such as the straw-man argument) against your opponent is the route to success. Of cause, it shouldn't matter whether or debater and political candidates maliciously attack one another to get ahead, we as the people should catch such attacks and punish the attackers accordingly. Surprisingly enough, however, we seem to like it when our persons attacks and yet hate it when our persons get attacked.

I wouldn't have realized just how inconsistent people can be had it not been for this past election. In a race in which both parties were clearly attacking the other party, it was clear to see that attacking someone rather than their points isn't really seen as bad (as long as its the person I like not being attacked). I was even more shocked to find the grounds by which people voted for their candidates (Democrats and republicans) . I remember when Obama was announced as winning the election, I asked two of my co-workers as to my they voted for Obama, to my surprise they actually said because he was black. When I asked them why they felt it was ok to vote for a candidate simply based on skin color, they answer me (to my surprise, again) "well its about time we get a black president." Now, let me mention that I could understand the frustrations of waiting for such a long time for something to happen and I am not saying Obama couldn't have made a better President than McCain; but still, I would not put my hopes in a person based on his skin color. It seems after years and years of racial injustice, some black people find it justified to answer back with racial injustice of their own, but, of cause, their justification is that "white people are racist," what I really want to know is why people think its not a problem to answer evil with evil on the basis of evil.

My attempts here, of cause, is not to say Democrats are bad, the truth is Republicans are guilty of the same things (myself included). It is clear that when people choose who to vote for on anything, they seem to vote by appearances. We, of cause, have a few prejudices to help us out, such as "black people are athletic," "Asian people are smart," and white people are just... well... white!!!!

As not to be outdone, religious Bulverism also has had in influx of ideas from people who say there is no need for religious people to ever disagree because after all, they say, all religions are just taking about the same things (as if all the gods were in heaven sitting around a camp fire and singing cumbaya to one another as they roast marshmallows and vote on which god would rule next). Then there are those who claim that there is no absolute truth and then make their statements as if that were an absolute truth, all the while neglecting their contradictory statements and the fact that almost all religions claim to be the only absolute truth.

It seems Bulverist want to discredit everyone's ideas while affirming their own ideas as the truth, but as Lewis made clear, "The forces discrediting reason, themselves depend on reasoning. You must reason even to Bulverize. You are trying to prove that all proofs are invalid. If you fail, you fail. If you succeed, then you fail even more - for the proof that all proofs are invalid must be invalid itself."