Paul Miil Talks

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 29 Miil talks about the forbidden subject.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 28 Miil shows how even the most creative, intelligent thinkers among us is susceptible to manipulation.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 27 Miil talks about the insidious beast of cultural Marxism and how that veil has been successfully pulled over many eyes. I was going to call it "Why am I here? How do I know so much?" from Richard Dreyfuss' great line in Close Encounters, but it would be too much of a non-sequitur.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 26 Miil talks about the heart of the beast, persuasion and manipulation. Feeding the monster/repetition, literal vs natural interpretations, sentence structure, weasel words, appeals, and Douglas Adams.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 25 Miil talks about the more common logical fallacies that are being used against you.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 24 Miil talks about the foibles of analogical arguments and how they can be used for good and evil.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 23 Miil talks about the foibles of causal arguments and how we instinctively get suckered and how there are 5 types yet manipulators act like there's only one.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 22 Miil talks about the foibles of non-deductive arguments and how we rely heavily on the logic of stereotype.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 21 Miil talks about techniques to evaluation premises. Deductive vs inductive logic = Accuracy vs precision.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 20 Miil talks about techniques to evaluation premises.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 19 Miil talks about the most cagey and dishonest of tactics, suppressed premises and the dangers to presuppositions.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 18 Miil talks about patterns of inference, the valid and invalid ways we make judgements.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 17 Miil talks about implications and conditions and the subtle difference between logical truth and truth in objective reality.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 16 Miil talks about what makes a valid argument.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. This episode Paul Miil explains "You can argue opinions, you can explain facts, but excuses are for losers."

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Ep 14 Miil covers "better", "epiphanies" and "close-enough encounters".

We all make assumptions based on what we think is right. We may not be right, even though everything looked like it was right. These wrong assumptions Miil calls Phantom Connections.

If ever there was a type of manipulation, priming is it.

The purpose of thinking is to make the known unknown and the unknown known. For the slower kids in the back: We all are wrong about many things, and when we are wrong the things we think we know that are wrong are actually unknown things... to us, we just don't know it yet. If you slow down and think, you might achieve great wisdom in realizing that the known may be unknown. The bonus of think...

Thought predators don't stop at mental techniques, they also use physical techniques. Miil goes over the physical techniques used by manipulators as well as thought-stopping (stopping wrong-think), inoculation (stopping outsiders from swaying the indoctrinated targets) and radicalization (contemporary university graduates.. ;)

This episode Miil talks about the psychological tactics used by the thought predator.

In 1954 Aldous Huxley, (the Brit who wrote Brave New World 1932) wrote The Doors of Perception, which was a drug induced exploration of SCHEMATA. (Jim Morrison read it and named his band "The Doors" after the book). This series is about defending yourself from manipulation. Our minds are not infallible and there are many ways manipulators can use our own minds against us. One of those vect...

We aren't omniscient and we don't have infinite time to convey a story, we therefore have to summarize stories... frame them in a context. This is utilized by scumbag manipulators along with spin. Deeper meanings? Stories within stories? Directed assumptions. Be wary.

Manipulators use our brain's wiring against us, framing our attitudes, using the consistency principle and creating tension to force us to change.

Fighting wrong assumptions by compartmentalization of arguments, stories, concepts into models.