{"id":18181,"date":"2021-11-26T22:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18181"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:23:20","slug":"thought-terminating-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/thought-terminating-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought terminating clich\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned David Pakman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/videos-about-us-politics\/\">before<\/a>, as someone who has brilliant videos on US politics. Here he&#8217;s interviewing Amanda Montell, a linguist who&#8217;s written a book called <strong>Cultish<\/strong>. They have a fascinating discussion about cults, in which she brings up this term &#8220;thought terminating clich\u00e9.&#8221; It means a phrase that always ends the debate, and is &#8220;aimed at shutting down independent thinking or questioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Y8PnwNX_Yg\">Could You Be Sucked Into a Cult? (Amanda Montell Interview)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She debunks the myth that it&#8217;s only disturbed and intellectually deficient people who join cults, and she also points out that you can&#8217;t change people&#8217;s minds with facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned David Pakman before, as someone who has brilliant videos on US politics. Here he&#8217;s interviewing Amanda Montell, a linguist who&#8217;s written a book called Cultish. They have a fascinating discussion about cults, in which she brings up this term &#8220;thought terminating clich\u00e9.&#8221; It means a phrase that always ends the debate, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,149],"class_list":["post-18181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-cults","tag-words-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18182,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18181\/revisions\/18182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}