Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 34
Blaming Fallacy
You have heard Blaming Fallacy at a dinner table, perhaps from an uncle, perhaps from yourself. It is a common family inheritance.
The fallacy survives because it is comfortable. It lets you keep your conclusion and skip the work. The cure is unfashionable: slow down, ask what the evidence actually shows, and let the conclusion follow.
The old NCERT textbook, boring cover and all, has outlived a hundred motivational posters. Clarity is the only pedagogy that never goes out of fashion.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. If this page made you think of one specific person, do not send it to them. Apply it to yourself first; that is how these things work.