Reddit reviews Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
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Scott Adams is a big Trump guy. He talked about how great Trump is throughout the last presidential campaign and then wrote a book about how smart and persuasive Trump is that was a best seller in 2017. Basically he thinks Trump is a genius at marketing and he talks about it a lot.
It's not directly about the administration, but Win Bigly is an excellent read.
> Paul Krugman
Krugman Predicting Market Failure
Krugman Predicting Clinton Win
Scott Adams predicted a Trump Win, and that the markets would react favourably.
> I am aware has no specific education in economics,
School
BA in Economics
Hartwick College
MBA
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
> nor has he ever had any work in those fields published,
economics, or statistics:
Politics
New York Times Best Seller.
> His track record is terrible. We've established this beyond doubt. Do try to keep up.
Terrible compared to what? Krugman?
> The position that Jordan Peterson is an idiot is already well publicized.
By whom?
> What issue? That Jordan Peterson is an idiot?
Yeah sure; lets have a broadcast debate about that. We can put it up on youtube.
Hey, thanks for the book recommendation! I’m always looking to add to the list, and this one has all sorts of acclaim, so I’m looking forward to it.
On a more somber note, I hope that others who read this thread take note of how charitable and thoughtful you are being - something sorely missing from the current state of American political discourse. You’re setting the right example and it’s a damn shame that it’s become so rare a thing that I felt the need to make a point of it.
This book can best explain how we can see things so differently about Trump
Are you serious? Have none of you been paying attention to Trump and Scott Adams?
Persuasion! Branding techniques, motherfucker! HAVE YOU HEARD OF THEM?
As soon as you say 'libtard', you lost: You are acknowledging them as a "liberal retard."
How the hell are you going to get people to take your side with "libtard?" Now read a goddamn book.
This depends on whether you prefer the approach of Scott Adams or that of Jordan Peterson. Scott is an unapologetic sophist, where as Peterson believes in always telling the truth, even if he is wrong about a few things.
>have the monsters meet in the middle
You really oughta read that book I linked. Evopsych, not Scott's. His answers on the subject of libertarianism are actually different and more complex than the ones I gave you, but that will be half the fun.
I think there's a direct correlation to lower IQ and degrading quality of debates. Trump is suggestive proof of this. I think [Scott Adams] (https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/0735219710) explained it best.
It's this gormless drivel about ["persuasive masterminds"] (https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/0735219710/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)
I think the problem is that Amazon is only giving me html style aff links. I need the simple ones that look like this: https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/0735219710/tiborthechechen
Not sure how closely people here follow him, but Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) writes at length on this subject and is beloved by Trumpsters for it. His most recent book (which is literally subtitled Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter ) has already become a sort of secondary bible to the crowd who thinks that subverting, manipulating, and denying reality are skills to be celebrated.
Wrong. Facts don't matter for persuasion.
You're simply unaware of how the human mind works. Every cognitive scientist understands the phenomenon I'm describing.
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter is a good place to start.
You’re right about that
> They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
I just finished reading Scott Adam's Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter — I just returned it to the ChattLibrary system, so it's available for checkout, if anybody is interested. It's largely about why Trump won, even when sometimes his hyperbole gets the best of him. Whatever your political leanings, this is a great book: just like the author, I am socially-liberal (pro-choice, 420-friendly) and fiscally-conservative (see my comment history).