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[[File: Musée du Louvre Darafsh (194).jpg |thumb |right |200px |Dacian prisoner with [[Phrygian cap]], 2nd century Roman statue.]]
  
 
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A soft [[conical]] cap (hat) with the apex bent over, associated in [[antiquity]] with several peoples in [[Eastern Europe]], [[Anatolia]], and [[Asia]].  Although not originally "liberty" caps, they came to signify [[freedom]] and the [[pursuit of liberty]] first in the [[American Revolution]] and then in the [[French Revolution]], particularly as a symbol of [[Jacobinism]] ([[Jacobin cap]]).  It was adopted in place of a crown on the [[coats of arms]] of the [[Argentina]], [[Cuba]], and [[Nicaragua]] republics as a symbol of their struggle for [[liberation]] and [[independence]].
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=== Gallery ===
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File: Louis le dernier3.jpg |Tinted etching of [[Louis XVI]], 1792, with a Phrygian cap.
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File: Figure allégorique de la République by Antoine-Jean Gros.png |''Allegory of the first French Republic'' by [[Antoine-Jean Gros]], depicting a Phrygian cap.
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File: Marianne - symbol of French Republic.jpg |Anonymous bust of [[Marianne]], with the Phrygian cap ([[Palais du Luxembourg]], Paris).
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File: Sansculottes.jpg |French revolutionaries wearing ''bonnets rouges'' and ''tricolor'' [[cockade]]s.
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File: EndOfSlaveTrade.jpg |A mezzotint commemorating the passage of the [[Slave Trade Act 1807]] by the [[Government of the United Kingdom |British government]], which [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom |abolished]] the [[Atlantic slave trade|slave trade]]. [[Britannia]] is seen with a Phrygian cap at the top a pole she wields.
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File: ColumbiaStahrArtwork.jpg |[[Columbia (name) |Columbia]] wearing a Phrygian cap, personification of the United States (World War I patriotic poster).
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File: Rodrigues-republica-mab.jpg |''[[Efígie da República]]'' (Effigy of the Republic), national personification of Brazil, wearing a Phrygian cap.
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File: Bandiera del Secondo Reggimento d'Usseri della Prima Repubblica Cisalpina (dal 10.6.1798 al 27.4.1799).png |Flag of the Second Regiment of the Usseri, [[Cisalpine Republic]], 1798 ||Allegory of Liberty wearing a Phrygian cap on a coin from Argentina, 1883
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File: Alegoría de la Primera República Española, por Tomás Padró.jpg |Allegory of the Spanish Republic wearing the Phrygian cap, 1873
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File: Iowa-StateSeal.svg |The [[Seal of Iowa]] showing a red liberty cap at the top of the soldier's flagstaff. The 1847 written description did not specify that the soldier has to wear the cap; thus he is commonly depicted with a [[American Civil War |Civil War]]-era cavalry hat.
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File: Seal of the State of Hawaii.svg |The [[Seal of Hawaii]] showing goddess Liberty wears a red liberty cap.
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File: Young America 1.jpg |[[Columbia (name) |Columbia]] holding up a Phrygian cap on an advertisement for the [[clipper]] ship ''[[Young America (clipper) |Young America]]''
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File: 1868 dollar obv.jpg |[[Seated Liberty dollar]], with Phrygian cap on a pole (1868)
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File: PRT008.JPG |Allegory of the Portuguese Republic on a coin, wearing the Phrygian cap
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File: 61 Cabeza de Camille Claudel con gorro frigio.jpg |''[[Head of Camille Claudel]]'', 1884, by [[Auguste Rodin]], portrays sculptor [[Camille Claudel]] wearing a Phrygian cap.
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File: Robert Emmet flag.svg |Flag raised by [[Robert Emmet]] during the [[Irish rebellion of 1803]]
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File: Flag of the Argentine Confederation.svg |Old flag of the [[Argentine Confederation]], that used four Phrygian caps: one in each corner.
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File: Coat of arms of Paraguay (reverse).svg |Reverse side of [[Coat of arms of Paraguay]]
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File: Coat of arms of Cuba.svg |[[Coat of arms of Cuba]].
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File: Coat of arms of Argentina.svg |[[Coat of arms of Argentina]]
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File: Coat of arms of El Salvador.svg |[[Coat of arms of El Salvador]]
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File: Coat of arms of Nicaragua.svg |[[Coat of arms of Nicaragua]]
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File: Brasão de Santa Catarina.svg |Coat of arms of [[Santa Catarina (state) ||Santa Catarina State]], Brazil
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File: Brasão da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.svg |Coat of arms of [[Rio de Janeiro]], with the Phrygian cap attached to an [[armillary sphere]]
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File: Brasão do Acre.svg |Coat of arms of [[Acre (state) |Acre State]], Brazil
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File: Brasão de Maceió.svg |Coat of arms of [[Maceió]], Brazil ||Coat of arms of [[Azuay Province]], Ecuador
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File: Coat of arms of Nueva Esparta State.svg |Coat of arms of [[Nueva Esparta]], Venezuela
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File: Escudo de Guárico.svg |Coat of arms of [[Guárico]], Venezuela
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File: Logo of the Swiss Party of Labour.svg |Logo of the [[Swiss Party of Labour]], a Phrygian cap with a [[Swiss cross]] on it.
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Terminology:

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Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

~ Panopticon[ Wikipedia ]


Paradox

Also: Paradoxes
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Examples:
  • Anarchism (no rulers) means anyone is free to start a gang, mafia, government, etc.
  • Body verses mind (can't have one without the other).
  • Ends verses means.
  • Equity verses equality.
  • Fairness in judgements of objectivity verses subjectivity.
  • Life.
  • My reliable sources verses your reliable sources.
  • Peaceful resistance to the monopoly on violence.
  • Safe dangerous.
  • Tolerance of the intolerant.
  • Wellbeing of the self verses the wellbeing of your communities verses the wellbeing of the world (of which we're all in).
  • Value.
  • Youth is wasted on the young.


Paradox of tolerance

A philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance. This paradox was articulated by the Austrian–British philosopher Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), where he argued that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance. Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices.

~ Paradox of tolerance[ Wikipedia ]


Pareidolia

A type of apophenia, the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Common examples include seeing faces in inanimate objects or perceived images of faces, animals, or objects in cloud formations. Pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by running water or air conditioners.
~ Pareidolia[ Wikipedia ]

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Pareto principle

AKA: the 80/20 rule, or the law of the vital few and, the principle of factor sparsity

For many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").

~ Pareto principle[ Wikipedia ]


Parody

Also: Parodies
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Parrhesia

Bold courage and freedom in/of speech. Openly expressing the truth despite potential dangers, including social repercussions, political scandal, or even matters of life and death.

In rhetoric, parrhesia (Greek: παρρησία) is candid speech, speaking freely. It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk.

~ Parrhesia[ Wikipedia ]


PayPal mafia

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Pedophilia

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Pedophocracy

AKA: Political pedophilia or Pedogate.

A term to describe accusations of secretive pedophilia, child sexual abuse, and occultic practices among "elites" (including regional authorities, religious leaders, high-ranking public officials and wealthy businesspeople - the ruling class), which are usually dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream. Pedophilia is not only used for profit, but to own, control, and destroy the powerful. Awareness grows beyond conspirophile culture and truther movements despite endless thought-police efforts as critics allege the mainstream corporate-controlled media downplay, ignore, or censor discussion with dynamic silence tactics to keep attention off this topic and their sinister control matrix.


Perception

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Pejorative

Also: Pejoratives
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Persuasion

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The Peter Principle

A concept in management, by Laurence J. Peter in 1969, observing that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence": employees are promoted by success in previous jobs until no longer competent, since one job's skills does not always translate to another.


Phenomenon

Also: Phenomena
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Philosophy

Also: Philosophies, Philosopher, Philosophers.
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Philosophical razor

AKA: Epistemological razor

In philosophy and epistemology, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (shave off) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.

Examples:

  • Alder's razor (AKA: Newton's flaming laser sword): If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.
  • Grice's razor (AKA: Guillaume's razor): As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.
  • Gro's razor: Assume malice when incompetence can adequately explain a situation.
  • Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  • Hitchens' razor: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
  • Hume's guillotine: What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is; prescriptive claims cannot be derived solely from descriptive claims, and must depend on other prescriptions.
  • Hume's Proportionality of Cause: "If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that cause, or add to it such qualities as will give it a just proportion to the effect."
  • Occam's razor: Explanations that require fewer assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary assumptions.
  • Popper's falsification criterion of demarcation: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.
  • Sagan standard: Positive claims require positive evidence, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
~ Philosophical razor[ Wikipedia ]

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Dacian prisoner with Phrygian cap, 2nd century Roman statue.

Phrygian cap

AKA: Jacobin cap, Liberty cap, Thracian cap.
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A soft conical cap (hat) with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. Although not originally "liberty" caps, they came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty first in the American Revolution and then in the French Revolution, particularly as a symbol of Jacobinism (Jacobin cap). It was adopted in place of a crown on the coats of arms of the Argentina, Cuba, and Nicaragua republics as a symbol of their struggle for liberation and independence.

Gallery


Phylaxis

(medical) The protection against infection or infectious disease.
(defensive) Guarding against cultural destruction, cyber warfare, ideological subversion, malicious infiltration, medical tyranny, political corruption, psychological operations, wealth theft, and weaponized migration. [This uniquely original definition is started here on Projex.Wiki in hopes of wider usage.]


Plunder

Also: Plundered, Plunderer, Plunderers, Plundering, Plunders.
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Polarization

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Political correctness

Also: Political correcting, Political correction, Politically correct, Politically corrected, Politically correcting, Politically corrects.
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Political pendulum

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Political ratchet

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Political spectrum

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Political system

Main article: Political systems.


Politico-economic

Also: Politico-economics
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Politics

Also: Politics
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Polycrises

The term polycrisis, also referred to as a metacrisis or permacrisis, describes a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other, resulting in a predicament which is difficult to manage or resolve. Unlike single crises which may have clear causes and solutions, a polycrisis involves overlapping and interdependent issues, making it a more pervasive and enduring state of instability. This concept reflects growing concerns about the sustainability and viability of contemporary socio-economic, political, and ecological systems. Coined in the 1990s, the concept became popular in the 2020s to refer to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, war, surging debt levels, inflation, climate change, resource depletion, growing inequality, artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and democratic backsliding. Critics of the term have characterized it as a buzzword or a distraction from more concrete causes of the crises.

~ Polycrises[ Wikipedia ]

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Ponerology

(from Greek poneros, "evil") A study of evil, in theology. Major subdivisions of the study are: nature of evil; origin of evil; and evil relating to the Divine Government. Agathology = the Doctrine of the Good; Ponerology = Doctrine of the Bad; Soteriology = Doctrine of Salvation.

~ Ponerology[ Wikipedia ]
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Book: Political Ponerology, recommended by Catherine Austin Fitts.


Population

Also: Populace, Populations
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Population management

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Portmanteau

AKA: Amalgamation, Blend word, Frankenword, Lexical blend, Portmanteau word, Telescope word
Also: Portmanteaus, Portmantologism

A blended word created by combining the spellings and meanings of two or more different words, often overlapping in sound and meaning, inheriting characteristics from both parent words to express some combination of the meaning of its parts.

Examples:

  • brunch - from breakfast and lunch
  • chortle - from chuckle and snort
  • smog - from smoke and fog
An original portmanteau.

In literary studies, a portmanteau, also known in linguistics and lexicography as a blend word, a lexical blend, or simply a blend, is a word formed by combining the meanings and parts of the sounds of two or more words. English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, and motel, blending motor (or motorist) and hotel. The term "portmanteau", derived from the French porte-manteau, literally is a two-part piece of luggage that was first applied metaphorically in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the combination of words.

A blend is similar to but distinct from a contraction. On one hand, mainstream blends tend to be formed at a particular historical moment followed by a rapid rise in popularity. On the other hand, contractions are formed by the gradual drifting together of words over time due to the words commonly appearing together in sequence, such as "do not" naturally becoming "don't" however, "don't" is also an example of a portmanteau morph.

A blend also differs from a compound, which fully preserves the stems of the original words. For instance, starfish is a compound, not a blend, of star and fish, as it includes both words in full. However, if it were called a "stish" or a "starsh", it would be a blend. Furthermore, when blends are formed by shortening established compounds or phrases, they can be considered clipped compounds, such as romcom for romantic comedy.

Contamination, in some languages, refers to a subset of blends, where the words combined are synonyms or have similar meanings. This kind of blend can be deliberate or accidental.

~ Portmanteau[ Wikipedia ]


POSIWID

AKA: The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Corbett Report:


Poverty

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Praxis

  1. The practical application of any branch of learning.
  2. (drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
  3. (philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
  4. Custom or established practice.
  5. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
~ praxis[ Wiktionary ]
noun | (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises) ; Etymology : Partly from Latin prāxis and partly from its etymon Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).

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Praxology

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Predictive programming

Many theorists allege that the contents of fictional media, in a process called "predictive programming", are manipulated to reference planned false flags, technological innovations, social changes, and other future events. These references are understood to be a conditioning and brainwashing tool, such that the public becomes more accepting of these events than they would be otherwise. Predictive programming theories have been used to explain events such as the September 11 attacks, COVID-19 pandemic, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk and connected with media such as Die Hard, The Simpsons, Contagion, and anime such as Blue Gender.

~ List of conspiracy theories #Predictive programming[ Wikipedia ]

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Prefix

Also: Prefixes.
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Prejudice

Also: Prejudiced], Prejudices, [[Prejudicial].
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President

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Presupposition

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Prevent

Also: Prevented, Prevents, Prevention, Preventives.
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Prime minister

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Privacy

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Privatization

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Problem

Also: Problematic, Problems.
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Profit

Also: Profits.
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Program

Also: Counter-Programming, Programed, Programmable, Programming, Programs.
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Programmable money

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The Super-Secret Project Agora Is Coming To Control Our Lives! w/ Paul Stone[ YouTube ] (21:04) ~ The Jimmy Dore Show, 2024-10-26.

Project Agorá

NOT to be confused with Agora.
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Project Agorá is an initiative led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) that aims to improve wholesale cross-border payments through the use of tokenization. It involves collaboration among multiple central banks and financial institutions to create a programmable platform for faster and more secure transactions.


Propaganda

AKA: Public relations
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Psychological operation

AKA: Psychological operations, Psy op, Psy ops, Psy-op, Psy-ops, Psyop, Psyops.
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Psychological warfare

AKA: Psy war, Psy-war, Psywar.
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Public relations

AKA: Propaganda
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Pursuit of liberty

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Pushing the hypothesis

AKA: Pushing your hypothesis
Main article: Terminology/P/Pushing the hypothesis, started by User:LarrySwinger

A tactical debate phrase revealing the fallacious use of unlikely speculations in order to cling to what was originally posited, and may be a powerfully misleading form of persuasion; a strategy many quackademics are guilty of. Jordan Peterson popularizes this term.


Pyramid of power

Also: Pyramid of Power, Pyramid Of Power.
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