Written by Balls
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The Logi is born of fire, brimstone, and neoliberal Twitter accounts. The Logi is forged by half-read Wikipedia articles. The Logi, as a result, is a menace to police society and an impediment to productive discussion. What is to be done with such an individual?
First, we must understand the Logi’s repulsive demeanor. By far the most striking feature is the unearned confidence, a cruel imitation of someone with reputation or intellectual caliber, but curiously lacking in either. On rare occasions when the Logi attempts to support their assertions with something besides blind arrogance, it post articles it does not read or studies it has not even bothered to summarize. What could explain this perplexing behavior? Well for a Logi, the conclusion of any such material is already a certainty, akin to a theological concept of predestination where the Logi alone has pre-divined truth. Thus, such links inevitably remain blue because their contents are already known! Such is the core essence of the Logi’s character: an unassailable belief that they alone see truth through a sort of unquestionable holy talent of sight, yet paired with the stubborn unwillingness to ever open their eyes to the truths. Because in their very personal universe, their own dreams and notions are more convincing than whatever mere suggestions could be made by material reality. The safety and comfort of the Logi mind palace is quite enviable!
The Logi is incapable of admitting even the smallest mistakes, an assertion any third party will undoubtedly agree with in confidence after only three minutes of conversation. Whenever rhetorically pinned, he will wriggle and worm, like a snake or a jew, out of even the slightest acknowledgement of fault. First, the Logi will suggest that the mistake was never made. If by some miracle the Logi can see it has made an error, this was an error of dictation, not logic: thankfully, it was simply semantic! And if it was not semantic, then it was not material to the argument. A skilled orator might then attempt to argue the material relevance of the point at hand, but this is a mistake, because the Logi will simply pivot; connivingly asking why such focus has been allocated to only one statement when there are so many more to address. Every argument with such a creature becomes an impossible Gorgon, each head a falsity birthed from some neoliberal Twitter user or Soros-operated reddit account.
To a Logi, good faith debates are not crucibles of truth from which reality can emerge, but venues where realities are brought in and used as hammers to bludgeon opponents into submission; not a space for compromise or productive conversation, but games of sport to wield predetermined conclusions like swords; not a buffet of worthy ideas, but a city sewer for one to regurgitate unread “facts” and misleading summaries in a drunken stupor. To a Logi, every discussion is in fact a devious trap where idiots and thieves mean to pry his golden calfs away from their protective mother. And so the Logi resists these things at all costs, by any means necessary, and must never permit himself to issue any sort of correction.
I do not believe that anyone is originally or inexonerably of bad character. But what is to be done with such an entity like the Logi?
The solution is obvious, and so this problem is left to the reader as an exercise in good judgment.
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