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writingKanonbåten - Aggressiv taktik, användande av hot.
Tandläkaren - Dra ut värsta tanden (detaljen) först. Komma tillbaka och mjuka upp resten.
Good cop-bad cop - Bilda två grupper som egentligen har samma mål. Den ena intar en högljudd ytterlighetsposition. Jämförelsevis verkar ståndpunkten hos den andra, måttfulla gruppen vara en bra kompromiss.
Frontgrupp - En grupp, startad av pr-firmor, som utger sig för att vara en ideell organisation bildad av vanliga, engagerade medborgare.
Strategies of the Self
1. Declare war on your enemies: Polarity
You cannot fight effectively unless you can identify them. Learn to smoke them out, then inwardly declare war. Your enemies can fill you with purpose and direction.
2. Do not fight the last war: Guerilla-war-of-the-mind
Wage war on the past and ruthlessly force yourself to react to the present. Make everything fluid and mobile.
3. Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: Counterbalance
Keep your presence of mind whatever the circumstances. Make your mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn to detach youself from the chaos of the battlefied.
4. Create a sense of urgency and desperation: Death-ground
Place yourself where you back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.
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Several approaches have been attempted to fight ideas.
1. Deprive them of hosts and transmission vectors, by quarantining people that have contracted them, e.g. as McCarthyism attempted. Or worse, what Stalin did with purges etc.
2. Refute them openly, logically, rationally. This tends to work in science, mathematics, and philosophy. It also works to dispell children of simple mythological constructs such as Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. More complex mythological constructs have for the most part evolved immunity to reason and logic. This doesn’t mean you should stop trying (hat tip: Mike Linksvayer).
3. Replace them by developing better idea(s) which outpropagate, overwhelm, and ideally displace the idea(s) you are fighting. This is how science could defeat widespread superstition. How freedom has a chance at defeating fascism. How hope can defeat fear. How love can defeat suicidal hate.