2nd October 2004, 4:58 PM
DLN, it was just the format. You see, they set the format so that logic would rule. No wait, that's not it. So that the PRETENCE of logic would be put in the people's collective mind. It seems to me it was an agreed upon stage to allow the APPEARENCE of rationality, even if it wasn't actually seen in the debate for the most part.
They had a lot of rules that seemed to indicate they wanted the actual arguments to be what the people considered rather than appearence (like telling networks NOT to do "reaction shots", which they ignored). Too bad they totally destroyed the spirit of that by acting in very showmanship ways.
They had a lot of rules that seemed to indicate they wanted the actual arguments to be what the people considered rather than appearence (like telling networks NOT to do "reaction shots", which they ignored). Too bad they totally destroyed the spirit of that by acting in very showmanship ways.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)