{"id":1828,"date":"2008-09-08T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2008\/09\/08\/false-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:54:07","slug":"false-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2008\/09\/08\/false-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"False witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In my past life as an evangelical for social action, I had a much-photocopied dossier in my desk drawer from the Procter & Gamble corporation. This surreal document was the company\u2019s sadly necessary response to the urban legend that the manufacturer of Tide, Crest and Dawn was some kind of satanic cult.<\/p>\n

Briefly, the idea was that the CEO of P&G had at some vague point in the recent past appeared on some talk show \u2014 Phil Donahue, or Sally Jesse, or Oprah, the story mutated and adapted over time \u2014 and declared that he was a Satanist and that a portion of the company\u2019s profits were donated regularly to the Church of Satan. (If you\u2019re not familiar with it, Snopes has a good rundown<\/a> of the history of this sordid, stupid lie.)<\/p>\n

\"Moonman\"<\/a>This is a mind-bogglingly silly story. It\u2019s not just implausible, but inconceivable, impossible.<\/i> It is unbelievable on its face for dozens of reasons that become clear from even a moment\u2019s consideration, and it\u2019s based on factual claims that are easy to check on and quickly disproved. But we don\u2019t need to get bogged down here in the ridiculousness of this malicious rumor, so bracket that for now, that\u2019s not the interesting part.<\/p>\n

Procter & Gamble had prepared the dossier to combat this zombie rumor. The company had put together its own documents disproving the story and disavowing any connection to the Evil One or to his church. They had collected letters from Donahue, Sally Jesse, Oprah and several other talk show hosts attesting that no one from the company had ever appeared on their programs, much less attempted to use such an appearance to spread the unholy gospel of Satanism. P&G had also collected an impressive array of letters from religious leaders \u2014 the archbishop of Cincinnati, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, among others \u2014 all of whom urged their followers not to believe this stupid, stupid lie.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, this desperate, shotgun appeal to religious authority demonstrated why the dossier itself was probably futile. It was an acknowledgment that the people they were attempting to convince were beyond the reach of mere fact or reason \u2014 people who did not find reality<\/i> compelling. The only hope of persuading them, then, was to call upon religious leaders from across the spectrum in the hopes that the pronouncement of one of these random bishops and evangelical pseudo-bishops might be regarded as trustworthy.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re forced to resort to such an attempt then you\u2019ve got to realize that it\u2019s not likely to work either. Any audience so far gone as to require this sort of argument is also likely to have already adopted the mechanisms of self-reinforcing stupidity. Thus if they read that Billy Graham denies the rumor, their response won\u2019t be \u201cOh, OK, Billy Graham. I trust him,<\/i>\u201d but rather \u201cOMG! Billy Graham<\/i> is in on it too!\u201d (cf.<\/i> \u201cbiased media\u201d)<\/p>\n

So the dossier was hopeless, but I had yet to come to see that. Thus whenever I came across some group of evangelicals choosing to believe this rumor and spreading it to others, I would photocopy the dossier and send it to them in the hope that good information would correct their misinformation.<\/p>\n

That was an old-school, pre-Internet method of doing something that I\u2019m sure everyone reading this used to do via e-mail. You would receive one of those chain e-mails from a parent, friend or coworker, containing some breathless warning against a nonexistent threat. It\u2019d take you a handful of clicks to find the Snopes<\/a> page debunking the rumor and you would cut and paste the URL back into the e-mail and then hit reply-all.<\/p>\n

I say this is something you probably used<\/i> to do because, I\u2019m guessing, you eventually realized that this approach doesn\u2019t work. It didn\u2019t work for me either when I sent out those photocopies of that slam-dunk, undeniable dossier from Procter & Gamble.<\/p>\n

The dossier\/Snopes approach doesn\u2019t work because it attempts to apply facts and reason to people who are not interested in either facts or reason. That\u2019s not a nice thing to say, or even to think, about anyone else, which is why I was reluctant and slow to reach that conclusion. But that conclusion was inevitable.<\/p>\n

In trying to combat the P&G slander with nothing more than irrefutable facts proving it false, I was operating under a set of false assumptions. Among these:<\/p>\n

1. <\/b>I assumed that the people who claimed to believe that Procter & Gamble supported the Church of Satan really did believe such a thing.<\/p>\n

2. <\/b>I assumed that they were passing on this rumor in good faith \u2014 that they were misinforming others only because they had, themselves, been misinformed.<\/p>\n

3. <\/b>I assumed that they would respect, or care about, or at least be willing to consider, the actual facts of the matter.<\/p>\n

4. <\/b>Because the people spreading this rumor claimed to be horrified\/angry about its allegations, I assumed that they would be happy\/relieved to learn that these allegations were, indisputably, not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of those assumptions proved to be false. All of them. This was at first bewildering, then disappointing, and then, the more I thought about it, appalling \u2014 so appalling that I was reluctant to accept that it could really be the case.<\/p>\n

But it is the case. Let\u2019s go through that list again. The following are all true of the people spreading the Procter & Gamble rumor:<\/p>\n

1. <\/b>They didn\u2019t really believe it themselves.<\/p>\n

2. <\/b>They were passing it along with the intent<\/i> of misinforming others. Deliberately.<\/p>\n

3. <\/b>They did not respect, or care about, the actual facts of the matter, except to the extent that they viewed such facts with hostility.<\/i><\/p>\n

4. <\/b>Being told that the Bad Thing they were purportedly upset about wasn\u2019t real only made them more<\/i> upset. Proof that the 23rd largest corporation in America was not<\/i> in league with the Devil made them defensive and very, very angry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, I\u2019m not happy to be saying such things about anyone, and I\u2019m only doing so here reluctantly, yet this is the appalling truth.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re also a bit reluctant to accept this. Maybe you\u2019re thinking Hanlon\u2019s\/Heinlein\u2019s Razor should apply \u2014 the axiom that reminds us to \u201cNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wish that applied here. As I said above, I spent a long time distributing that dossier on that assumption that I was, in fact, dealing with stupidity rather than malice. But the spreading of this rumor cannot be adequately explained by stupidity. Stupidity alone doesn\u2019t make one hostile to irrefutable facts. Stupidity cannot account for their vicious anger<\/i> when the rumor is debunked \u2014 anger at the person doing the debunking, and anger at the whole world for not turning out to be the nightmare they wanted it to be.<\/p>\n

But in any case, no one is stupid enough<\/i> to really believe such a story. The coworkers or relatives who fill your inbox with urban legends and hoaxes may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but none of them is stupid enough to believe this. And neither are those people who claim that they do believe it.<\/p>\n

Go back and unbracket all of the implausibilities and impossibilities of this story. It just makes no sense. Why would a member of a secret evil society of evil go on national TV to tell the world about it? And why would this proudly evil company now deny the very same thing? Why does the name of the TV host keep changing while the CEO himself is never named? And how come no one can seem to find anyone who actually saw<\/i> this alleged broadcast? And \u2026<\/p>\n

And why are we even bothering to discuss the holes in this story? It\u2019s nothing but<\/i> holes. Any one of those holes should stop the hearer short, preventing them from passing this ridiculous story along and adding their approval to it.<\/p>\n

If a person is smart enough to comprehend this story and then to repeat it, then that person is, by definition, not stupid enough to really believe it.<\/p>\n

I used to believe that maybe some people were that stupid. They were acting<\/i> that stupid, so I went along. I believed that the people I was sending that dossier to were merely innocent dupes.<\/p>\n

But in truth they were neither innocent nor dupes. The category of innocent dupe does not apply here. No one could be honestly misled by such a story. The only way to have been misled by it is dishonestly<\/i> \u2014 which is to say deliberately, willingly and willfully. They are claiming to believe a foolish thing, but they are not guilty of foolishness. They are guilty of malice.<\/p>\n

They are just plain guilty.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the interesting and complicated question: Why? Why<\/i> would anyone choose to pretend to believe such preposterous and malicious falsehoods? What\u2019s in it for them?<\/p>\n

For some few of them, the answer to that doesn\u2019t turn out to be all that complicated or all that interesting. They did it for money.<\/p>\n

The P&G rumor seems to have originated among rival soap-sellers \u2014 people affiliated with a giant multilevel marketing scheme with roots in the evangelical subculture (it rhymes with \u201cSpam Ray\u201d). Their marketing model is based on old-fashioned social networking, which partly accounts for why the rumor remains so widespread among American evangelicals. It also explains why the rumor seems to have been tailored to appeal to evangelicals in particular \u2014 with the CEO allegedly declaring his allegiance to the Church of Satan rather than to, say, the American Nazi Party or the Klan or communism.<\/p>\n

The people who created this rumor, in other words, employed it as a way of convincing prospective buyers to purchase their detergent instead of Tide because Tide worships the Devil. That seems hamfisted and over-the-top doesn\u2019t it? A vaguer, less extreme rumor might have seemed likelier to work better \u2014 something subtler than the ultimate trump card of claiming that P&G was literally<\/i> in league with Satan.<\/p>\n

But the rumor was<\/i> effective. Spectacularly effective. It went viral years before most of us had ever thought to use that term that way. And it lives on, still surfacing and resurfacing after decades spent trying to kill it through truth-telling dossiers and aggressive litigation.<\/p>\n

Confronted with the runaway success of such an absurd and over-the-top claim, the reflexive response is to think something like, \u201cWow, a lot of people really are gullible and stupid.\u201d But again \u2014 and this is my point here \u2014 this has nothing<\/i> to do with either stupidity or gullibility. The widespread promotion and pretend-acceptance of this rumor cannot be adequately explained by stupidity. It can only be attributed to malice.<\/p>\n

This story, as with the many others like it, is spread maliciously. The people spreading it are not fools. They are not suffering from a mental defect, but from a moral one. They have chosen<\/i> to bear false witness, and they do so knowingly.<\/p>\n

So money was one motive for those who first created and began to spread the P&G rumor. Theirs is the easiest case. Greed is relatively mundane and uncomplicated. But what of the others, what of those who pretend to believe this rumor and enthusiastically spread it to others without the possibility of financial benefit?<\/p>\n

Theirs is a far more complicated, and more interesting, situation. Too complicated to get into this morning, so this post will have to have a Part 2.<\/p>\n

(Keep reading: False Witnesses 2<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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