Pseudofaith
Pseudofaith by Matt Windle poet February 21, 2021
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Pseudofat
A false piece of fat, made from synthetic rubber. Surgically added to patients who have lost skin in accidents. Or given to anorexic people recovering. Also used to add fat to people
Pseudofact
A pseudofact is a piece of information that, despite being completely false, is far more interesting than the equivalent correct information. Because pseudofacts are more interesting, they are more likely to get repeated. This results in people who believe them because it's what their friends and family has always told them. This belief is often strong enough to ward off solid evidence of the contrary.
Priest: Masturbation will make you go blind.
John: That's a pseudofact. I've been doing it for years, and I can see just fine.
Doctor: You should drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water a day.
Patient: Bull, that's a pseudofact. We get almost all the water we need in the food we eat.
Kristen: That moon has phases because it's partially behind the earth's shadow. That's what my teacher taught me.
Eric: No, that's a pseudofact. The moon has phases because of the angle between it, us, and the sun.
Republican: Obama's health care bill will create Death Panels.
Democrat: That's a pseudofact. The bill would just pay for discussions with doctors about things like living wills.
Any urban legend is a pseudofact.
John: That's a pseudofact. I've been doing it for years, and I can see just fine.
Doctor: You should drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water a day.
Patient: Bull, that's a pseudofact. We get almost all the water we need in the food we eat.
Kristen: That moon has phases because it's partially behind the earth's shadow. That's what my teacher taught me.
Eric: No, that's a pseudofact. The moon has phases because of the angle between it, us, and the sun.
Republican: Obama's health care bill will create Death Panels.
Democrat: That's a pseudofact. The bill would just pay for discussions with doctors about things like living wills.
Any urban legend is a pseudofact.
Pseudofact by Mythological Beast November 7, 2009
Pseudoauthenticity
When someone follows the "fad" of being authentic and loves to throw around the word, without TRULY being authentic in who they are, in their beliefs or in their projected image of oneself.
Pseudoauthenticity by Moon Sister June 28, 2019
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A state of performative resistance in which one outwardly postures as a challenger of great forces—be they literal giants, metaphorical fears, or societal systems—while internally constrained by a complex web of doubts, prohibitions, and hypothetical counterfactuals. The subject inhabits a mental space where action is forever deferred by a litany of imagined limitations: one could fight, but one can’t; one might oppose, but one shouldn’t; one dreams of standing tall, but wouldn’t dare; and ultimately, one won’t—not now, not ever.
pseudofactualism
Pseudofactualism is the counterfeit religion of a disordered age: a system in which half-truths, lies, selective evidence, institutional decay, and charismatic media figures produce fact-like narratives for people too spiritually hungry, intellectually untrained, or morally exhausted to test them. In the absence of reverence for truth, society does not become rational; it creates new prophets, new dogmas, and new rituals of belief.
01. The pandemic became an empire of pseudofactualism: forbidden questions later became admitted possibilities, while those who asked them too early were branded dangerous, threatened professionally, or economically punished — even as favored violators of the rules were excused.
02. Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, the reaction to him exposed American pseudofactualism: entire media ecosystems turned partial facts, selective leaks, and tribal emotion into rival scriptures.
03. The term ChiCom is historically documented U.S. government shorthand for Chinese Communist, used to distinguish the CCP regime from Chinese people generally. To rebrand that distinction as racism is pseudofactualism: it protects the regime by confusing criticism of communist power with hostility toward the very Chinese people who have been among its first and greatest victims.
04. The collapse of public-safety language became another example of pseudofactualism: policies that weakened enforcement were described as compassion, disorder was renamed equity, and the predictable harm to ordinary citizens was treated as an inconvenient detail rather than a fact.
05. Iraq showed how pseudofactualism can move a nation to war: uncertain intelligence became public certainty, dissent was treated as weakness or disloyalty, and the machinery of government and media converted possibility into supposed fact.
02. Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, the reaction to him exposed American pseudofactualism: entire media ecosystems turned partial facts, selective leaks, and tribal emotion into rival scriptures.
03. The term ChiCom is historically documented U.S. government shorthand for Chinese Communist, used to distinguish the CCP regime from Chinese people generally. To rebrand that distinction as racism is pseudofactualism: it protects the regime by confusing criticism of communist power with hostility toward the very Chinese people who have been among its first and greatest victims.
04. The collapse of public-safety language became another example of pseudofactualism: policies that weakened enforcement were described as compassion, disorder was renamed equity, and the predictable harm to ordinary citizens was treated as an inconvenient detail rather than a fact.
05. Iraq showed how pseudofactualism can move a nation to war: uncertain intelligence became public certainty, dissent was treated as weakness or disloyalty, and the machinery of government and media converted possibility into supposed fact.
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