To Michael humor. And I, by the way, I point this out, I asked this question in full realization that one of the times I was a guest with you. As the host, you ran through a series of important thinkers in libertarianism or voluntary ISM and it was like a lightning round. You said the name and then I talked about some of their key ideas and I think you gave me Michael humor so I'm going to toss them back at you. What can you tell us about?
So humor has the excellent method Of taking someone's premise and showing this premise. I totally agree with, however, I disagree with the conclusion that this premise gives. So already, you're taking people off the defensive. So that's why I was so appreciative of some of his early work and you're absolutely right when it comes to things like well, the state does things daily that we would commend as terrible if anyone else did
them. For example, how I can't imagine a 24-hour period that's gone by where someone has it? Own at me, bad working conditions in the industrial revolution. As if ushering in a state automatically, improves working conditions for the globe but we would never say, hey, the Russian government is murdering people in Ukraine and Ukraine's murdering people in the donbas. You stayed his need to answer for this. Look at all this government tragedy that's happening.
How about that first world war? What a tragedy? Why would you guys Advocate that system? So just getting in that Rhythm that humor gets you to thinking you. Become sort of guilt-free when you Advocate things like this but these specific section that I chose for humor. His most popular book is the problem of political Authority. I have a number of quotes in the back but he has another book, titled knowledge, reality and value where he lists his 14, most important logical
fallacies. And one of them that he lists is credulity and it's great because he shows you how to sort of walk through media manipulation. That you otherwise wouldn't recognize. So I'd say, the most important thing that he is brought to the table are these logical fallacies in the credulity section. He says, basically the news is nonsense and by this, I mean, almost everything falls into the category of ideological bias.
Meaning things are Cherry Picked by the very nature of you picking to report on one thing and not another. That is a bias how much time you spend on it? That is also a bias. I Add an intelligence officer. Come on my show, a guy named Chase use and he said, if I could summarize mind control in one word, it would be repetition. So this is how the media is really able to plant ideas in the minds of the populace.
Imagine if there were pictures of civilians all over the news every time a government drone killed civilians, like they are with who are referred to as Shooters but they're actually murderers. The second thing he says to look out for is sensationalism own. With the January sex thing, you would have thought that 30,000 people died on this day, it lasted for months. On end, the sensationalist tactics that the media used to tell you.
One thing is vitally important and it's a total danger to civilization that is one of the greatest propaganda tricks around and then he says the third thing you have to look out for is laziness, there was a great article on CNBC great in the sense of it really exposes the people. This was in I think 2020 it said Why economists don't think trillions of dollars, inputted into the economy will lead to price inflation. It's something to that extent.
It's just so in your face. Now one interpretation could be this reporters alyre working for the state working for the FED. That could be true. The problem is a lot of people actually believe this who are not necessarily agents or provocateurs. So simply the idea of being lazy where people have not taken the time. To look into topics makes them inherently bias. It takes a long time to understand history, economics
philosophy, why wars happened? Why peace happens, why some countries are wealthy While others are poor. Very few journalists have done that work. So humor exposing media bias, through sensationalism, cherry picking and laziness I think is best contribution. By the way, for anybody listening was curious about him, his last name is spelled hu e mer. So it's not what you think.