【推文】James Lindsay - Legitimation by paralogy roughly means manufacturing truth(iness) through...
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They've become so accustomed to just manufacturing whatever public sentiment that they want that they don't realize that there are limits to the magic of alchemy, and with hundreds of millions of people around the world, the spell is already broken.
們已經習慣了隨意製造他們想要的公眾情緒，以至於他們沒有意識到煉金術的魔力是有限的，而全世界有數億人，這個魔法已經被破解了。
This is no small point here, by the way. They literally believe they can manufacture, by engineering the discourses, whatever public sentiment and mood they want. They think they can induce national calm by censoring people and tailoring what people hear and say.
It's absolutely crucial to understanding what's happening now to understand the idea of "discourse engineering," where they believe they can do social engineering by changing what people talk about and, quite clearly, achieve virtually any end with it.
順便一提，這可不是小事。他們確實相信，通過操控對話/交流（discourses），他們可以製造出任何他們想要的公眾情緒和心情。他們認為，通過審查人們並控制人們聽到和說的話，可以誘導出國家的平靜。
理解「交流工程」（discourse engineering）的概念對理解現在發生的事情至關重要，他們相信通過改變人們談論的主題可以進行社會工程，並且很明顯，可以幾乎實現任何目的。
The postmodern philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard called this "legitimation by paralogy," by the way, and criticized it pretty effectively (given that he was PoMo and therefore a bit cuckoo and off-the-mark). On that point, but not all related points, he was right.
"Legitimation by paralogy" roughly means "manufacturing 'truth(iness)' through (forcing) consensus," or, in simpler language, creating social enforcement of lies that must be believed. Lyotard rightly recognized that this is a disaster (he wrongly believed everything is that).
順便提一下，後現代哲學家Jean-Francois Lyotard將此稱為「通過paralogy的合法化」（legitimation by paralogy），並對此進行了有效的批評（考慮到他是後現代主義的學者，所以有時有點偏激和離題）。在這個特定點上，他說得對。
「通過paralogy的合法化」大致上意味著「通過（強迫）共識製造『真實性』」，或者用更簡單的語言來說，就是創造社會強制力來讓人們相信謊言。Lyotard通過paralogy的合法化正確地認識到這是一種災難（他錯誤地認為一切都是這樣）。
In my recent essay on psychopathy and the origins of totalitarianism, I refer to this when it arises from ideology (as it usually does) as an "ideological paralogic," a false "logic" that is used to argue for a fake reality. They want to manufacture this.
在我最近關於心理病態和極權主義起源的散文中，當這種現象源於意識形態（就像通常那樣）時，我將其稱為「意識形態paralogic」（ideological paralogic），一種用於論證假現實的錯誤「邏輯」。他們希望製造這種現象。
The media, after months of stoking division and inflaming everything (and while still doing it for its favored points) is also claiming that it can "induce national calm NOW" by pulling the same crap that inflamed the problems, just more selectively, more repressively.
The asymmetry is a crucial point to observe here too. They're using Repressive Tolerance (https://marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html) as part of their paralogy. They're going to "induce national calm NOW" by silencing their enemies and continuing to force their pseudo-reality onto everyone.
媒體在數月內不斷煽動分裂和激化一切（同時仍在為他們偏好的觀點服務）後，現在也聲稱他們可以「立即誘導國家平靜」，通過使用同樣激化問題的手段，只是更選擇性、更壓制性地進行。
這裡觀察到的一個關鍵點是對稱性的缺失。他們正在使用「壓制性寬容」（https://marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html）作為其類比論證的一部分。他們將通過壓制敵人並繼續強迫人們接受他們的偽現實來「立即誘導國家平靜」。
Another parallel example of exactly this is when radical Islamists (not all Muslims!) insist that Islam is "a religion of peace," wherein what they mean is that when everyone believes THEIR NARROW THEOLOGY and submits to it, there will peace. Same, same, or very close.
另一個完全相同的例子是激進伊斯蘭主義者（並非所有穆斯林！）堅持認為伊斯蘭是「和平的宗教」，他們所指的是在每個人都相信他們狹隘的神學並臣服於它時，就會有和平。這是一樣的，或者非常相似。
It's pretty important that you learn to see this "discourse engineering," or, as Lyotard had it, "legitmation by paralogy," when and where it occurs. The media is high enough on its own supply now that it believes it can do it more or less without limitations on its power.
The most dangerous part of believing they can do it without limitations on its power is that that is dangerously wrong and will therefore be "fixed" by using increasing amounts of force and coercion. This is what the slide into totalitarianism and atrocity looks like.
學習識別「交流工程」，或者Lyotard所說的「通過paralogy的合法化」，是非常重要的，當它發生時和發生在何處。媒體現在對自己的產出足夠地自滿，以至於它相信自己可以在沒有權力限制的情況下進行。
相信他們可以在沒有權力限制的情況下進行最危險的部分是，這危險地錯誤，因此將通過使用越來越多的力量和強迫來「糾正」。這就是滑向極權主義和暴行的樣子。