Read or listen now | Dominic Frisby explores conflation and how it has become a political weapon. He highlights many of the common conflations in today's polarised world.
This really is a great list and a great article. The part I really liked was that 'once you see conflation, it’s very hard to un-see.'
It's an education in the same way as starting to see bias. The biasedbbc website was a helpful guide with that some years ago.
You start seeing the subtle bias in the news. Who did they talk to? What questions did they ask? Who commissioned that report? Who does that 'charity' represent and who pays for it?
Who didn't they talk to? What questions didn't they ask? Which reports or other sources did they ignore? Are certain people and sources over represented and others unrepresented?
My three conflation candidates:
statistics and truth
opinion polls and what is genuinely important to people
what people say and what people really think or mean
Really enjoyed your informed chat with Rob Moore - that gained you a subscriber! Interesting taxation ideas. You dodged some awkward ‘conflationary’ questions well with humour in that convo! Did I also see you singing a couple of funny songs at an event in London with some of the usual suspects (Together? Delingpod?). Of the two AI generated pics I like the second best, conflating classical architecture with a sci-fi landscape!
This really is a great list and a great article. The part I really liked was that 'once you see conflation, it’s very hard to un-see.'
It's an education in the same way as starting to see bias. The biasedbbc website was a helpful guide with that some years ago.
You start seeing the subtle bias in the news. Who did they talk to? What questions did they ask? Who commissioned that report? Who does that 'charity' represent and who pays for it?
Who didn't they talk to? What questions didn't they ask? Which reports or other sources did they ignore? Are certain people and sources over represented and others unrepresented?
My three conflation candidates:
statistics and truth
opinion polls and what is genuinely important to people
what people say and what people really think or mean
That is a great list!
Elections & Democracy
The state and society
Authority and hierarchy
God and His followers
Capitalism and the free market
Progressivism and liberalism
Hearth and Home and Blood and Soil
Marxism and communism
... this is fun!
This is a very well considered and expressed piece, Mr Frisby. It may be your best. Great work, it's always a pleasure to hear your insights.
Ah and the one that’s taxing my mind at the moment - a woman’s right to choose & infanticide.
Really enjoyed your informed chat with Rob Moore - that gained you a subscriber! Interesting taxation ideas. You dodged some awkward ‘conflationary’ questions well with humour in that convo! Did I also see you singing a couple of funny songs at an event in London with some of the usual suspects (Together? Delingpod?). Of the two AI generated pics I like the second best, conflating classical architecture with a sci-fi landscape!