![]() ![]() Nor did it even have to be logic: it had only to appear so, as long as it aroused the feelings of the masses. He knew how to use the kind of logic that moved the great majority. I had no idea how he had acquired these techniques, but he clearly had the knack of appealing directly to the feelings of the mass audience. Noboru Wataya was an intellectual chameleon, changing his color in accordance with his opponent’s, ad-libbing his logic for maximum effectiveness, mobilizing all the rhetoric at his command. He needed only to attack, to knock his enemy down. He had nothing to protect, which meant that he could concentrate all his attention on pure acts of combat. Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media’s tiny time segments, and it was his great advantage to be free of such things. ![]() But these very absences were what constituted his intellectual assets. Margaret said: This is the place to start discussing The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. ![]() “If there was any consistency to his opinions, it was the consistent lack of consistency, and if he had a worldview, it was a view that proclaimed his lack of a worldview. ![]()
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