When political systems become increasingly detached from reality they loose the ability to rationally argue for their positions. Instead they appeal to force and engage in faulty reasoning in patterns that have been recognized and defined since Ancient Greece. The lack of coherent thinking also often results in certain kinds of psychological phenomena such as rather self-evident displays of self-deception, willful ignorance and cognitive dissonance. In the next few posts we will be weaving the sciences of political ponerology, logic and psychology to detect and analyze "paralogic" or a form of discourse that simulates rational argumentation to some degree or another but in fact represents a kind of degradation in the ability to think clearly.
