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You must show that<\/em> a man is wrong before you start explaining why<\/em> he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that<\/em> he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it \u201cBulverism.\u201d Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father\u2014who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third\u2014\u201cOh you say that because you are a man<\/em>.\u201d \u201cAt that moment,\u201d E. Bulver assures us, \u201cthere flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall.\u201d That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBulverism explains how\u00a0we can know that I\u00a0oppose gay marriage due to homophobia, speak highly of Perry Lorenzo due to my suppressed homosexuality,\u00a0will not vote for Romney due to my secret love of Obama, will not vote for Obama due to my racism, oppose torture due to my love of terrorism, oppose lying to Planned Parenthood due to my secret zeal for abortion, oppose abortion due to my intense misogyny, dislike the philosophy of Ayn Rand because of my Communist sympathies, hate\u00a0Communism because of my contempt for the poor, oppose Radical Traditionalism because of my hatred of the Faith, love the Faith because of my hatred of Protestants, oppose Progressive Dissent because of my Reactionary hatred of Progress, dislike antisemitism because of my capitulation to Jewish subversives, criticize Israeli treatment of Palestinian Christians because of my hatred of Jews, support Just War theory because of my bellicose neocon sympathies, support Just War theory because I am a peacenik who wants America to lose,\u00a0and\u00a0like Magisterial teaching because I am a Reactionary who wishes to roll back Vatican II and a Liberal stooge who refuses to roll back Vatican II.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026on the Bulverism of same-sex marriage supporters.\u00a0 Bulverism, for them that don\u2019t know, is a term coined by C.S. Lewis who wrote a little essay titled \u201c\u2018Bulverism\u2019: Or, the Foundation of 20th Century Thought,\u201d in which he invents a hapless character, Ezekiel Bulver: You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-37767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doings-on-other-blogs"],"yoast_head":"\n
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