Logorrhea:
In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos “word” and ῥέω rheo “to flow”) is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. This disorder is also known as press speech. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment is often reported as a symptom of Wernicke’s aphasia, where damage to the language processing center of the brain creates difficulty in self-centered speech. [Wikipedia]
This one came from a reader:
Here’s a word of the day for you, Hue. A writer applied this to the crazed critics of Bill Gates who accused him of implanting microchips, etc.: logorrheic
“He also became a target of the plague of misinformation afoot in the land, as logorrheic critics accused him of planning to inject microchips in vaccine recipients.”
Funny. I was just reading a Scientific American article on the topic of science vs clashing world views:
In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present strong evidence, or evidence of a strong expert consensus. This approach succeeds most of the time, when the issue is, say, the atomic weight of hydrogen.
But things don’t work that way when scientific advice presents a picture that threatens someone’s perceived interests or ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue.
“Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers. As I explain in my book, “The Truth About Denial,” this very human tendency applies to all kinds of facts about the physical world, economic history and current events. – Adrian Bardon
Another piece of literature on people who bank on reality not having its vengeance on them. Personally, I try to avoid reality vengeance, as it tends to shorten lifetimes and makes me cranky,
(h/t CJ)
