As others have noted: appealing to things other than political or academic argumentation is not Dark Arts. Dark Arts is using rationality to cause others to come to false beliefs, or worse, rationally strategizing so as to ensure others take action on false beliefs, or even worse, just outright tricking others into doing evil based on false beliefs.
So basically, none of what you’re talking about qualifies as Dark Arts.
You don’t believe they are Dark Arts. That’s fine. So if you think the things I described above are ok, that means to me we are good to go with what we currently have :-)
Dark Arts generally involve deceit and you are basically talking about persuading the yokels using crude and simple propaganda methods. “Rationality good, hate bad! You get rational about sex you get lot of sex!” :-D
As others have noted: appealing to things other than political or academic argumentation is not Dark Arts. Dark Arts is using rationality to cause others to come to false beliefs, or worse, rationally strategizing so as to ensure others take action on false beliefs, or even worse, just outright tricking others into doing evil based on false beliefs.
So basically, none of what you’re talking about qualifies as Dark Arts.
Ok, I think we’re running into a semantic difference here. The several articles I quoted above described using simple and positive language, having some stories, some flashy language and graphics as Dark Arts.
You don’t believe they are Dark Arts. That’s fine. So if you think the things I described above are ok, that means to me we are good to go with what we currently have :-)
Dark Arts generally involve deceit and you are basically talking about persuading the yokels using crude and simple propaganda methods. “Rationality good, hate bad! You get rational about sex you get lot of sex!” :-D