Steely Dan wrote a song entitled, "Pretzel Logic" (#1773)

I don't know for sure what the group Steely Dan meant by their song title, I will look it up later, but for now it reminds me of those people who find it somehow in their priority to twist and bend logic to make it fit their narrative. It is that they have a conclusion already and are out to make it appear logical through any means possible, despite their conclusion being illogical. It is one thing to show a young mind how to think for themselves through the usage of logic and common sense but it is quite another thing to try to show someone how to think when thinking with logic and common sense is not their process. They have their view and nothing short of their own personal "catastrophe" will teach them otherwise. They have taken whatever subjective anecdotal information they are impressed by and calling it the objective reasoning we all should be flattered that they are supplying us with. For them to learn any different from us is antithetical to who they are and what they think we are. The process by which they employ their understanding is not fixed but moves from point to point without ever being grounded in a solid fact. Much like a ship on sea trying to measure plumb with a plumb bob. Never reaching the point of absolute but only just coming close when luck intervenes. Eventually all of us will quit giving the illogical ones the attention they crave in order to facilitate their nonsense and they can go back to being Don Quixote and flailing at windmills, which by today's standards pretty much sums up their offerings.