Even though there are 2000 Books and Films

The nation pays for chronic double mistrust
Confidence in government has declined
Participation in voting has gone down
National appetite encourages peddlerism
Evil is never easy to accept...
... Let it go ...
Time to accept the conclusion
There is no evidence to contradict
... the establishment.



Patrick Darnell

Fallacies

Fallacious
Argument
Lacking
Logic
Associated to
Closeted
Informality
Exploiting
Syllogisms



Patrick Darnell

Offering False Reasons

Forty fallacies
do I count
for these claims
you make...

Your innuendo
masquerades
like a hyperbole
I can see the weasler
in its incredulity.

Reasons good or bad
the meeting falls short
your pseudo-reasoning
begs no further retort.

Behind your apple polishing
is a red herring
smelling to high heaven
and truth deterring...

Give me reasons
to discuss good and greed
and I will soon forget
your bad seed.



Patrick Darnell

Slanters

Downplayers
Escaping,
So called,
quantum jumping,
service industrialists
in disparaging absence
'Pardon the expression, but,
is that your dysphemism?'

Can't you soften that
with a euphemism?
Tyson a rapist?
That's a loaded question,
My old man
drives a jalopy...
would be more pleasing, eh?

Disenfranchised
partners tried to weasel out
by nudging their bets...
But their contact
provided a proof surrogate,
Every body loses.

Central casting needed
someone dangerous,
someone savage,
someone philosophical
some guerrilla fighters,
and someone archetypal ...

But they found only tired
old rhetorical players
Psychopathic liars and
persuasion spinners
... packaged stereotypes.






Patrick Darnell

MAIEUTIC

Midwife
Antagonist
Interrogation
Educational
jUdgment
Teaching
Induction
Critical thinking

MAIEUTIC.
Accept
Reject
Challenge

Patrick Darnell