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Persons who hear a lie repeated over and over come to believe they have seen evidence for that lie. They believe to their core that the lie has been proven to them. This perverse consequence of repetition has been known for more than two centuries, and reportedly was considered by Napoleon to be the only important factor in persuasion.
This is why it is so difficult to counter an endlessly repeated lie with a single response.
While persons who have accepted such a lie think they have seen proof, they can't put their finger on what that proof was, and so have a difficult time going into a dialog about it. As a result, such people find it difficult to think past the falsehoods they have embraced.
Discussion is the tool we have to move past this, and discussion must be done in a focused way to be effective.
I put together the steps and guidelines for focused discussion that I have found to be effective over years of interaction with persons who have accepted falsehoods. The steps are the actions we take in carrying out the discussion, and guidelines are the rules that keep the discussion orderly and productive.
If we apply these steps and guidelines when conducting a focused discussion with others, we can resolve the tangled snarl of lies that has made our society so polarized.
These steps and guidelines are described in chapter 12 of my book, The Reverse Pinocchio Effect. If it would be useful to describe these steps and guidelines in posts on X, I can begin a discussion here of what those steps and guidelines are and how they are applied.
Our society has become highly partisan due to the dissemination of lies that have been accepted as true without proof. We can resolve this, and we can do so very easily, but only if we all understand how to engage in a productive discussion with others in addressing these lies.
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