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Appeal to Novelty
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Appeal to Novelty is a logical fallacy where someone claims that a proposal, idea, work, or trend is better or more accurate than what came before, solely because it is newer or more recent. This argument is often made with regard to technology, where it is often supposed that anything "high tech" is automatically better than anything "low tech." However, technology is all about fulfiling requirements, not just improvement for the sake of improvement — while a modern tank is faster and has a much more powerful gun than a World War I tank, it has inferior obstacle crossing abilities because its design represents a trade-off between visibility and obstacle crossing, and therefore claiming the modern tank is "better" is subject to conditions. This fallacy is the polar opposite of Appeal to Tradition; C. S. Lewis called this fallacy chronological snobbery. Calling goodness "old-fashioned" is an insult because of this trope. It is also known as "Appeal to Youth." In some forms of media, Appeal to Novelty occurs when a new work includes an original feature solely in an attempt to attract an audience by appealing to their curiosity. Note that in this use, appealing to novelty is not inherently "right" or "wrong;" the novelty might end up actually attracting an audience, drawing lots of imitators in the process, eventually resulting in the original being Vindicated by History. Also see New and Improved and Once Original, Now Common. |
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In the Honor Harrington books, there is an ongoing debate between two strategic and technological schools of thought, one of which is the Jeune Ecole, the other being the Historical School. The jeune ecole believe that tactics and strategy have stagnated over time, so new military technologies need to be developed in order to break the stalemate. The historical school believe that any new technology should fit within established paradigms in order to be effective, and criticize the jeune ecole for supporting new ideas simple because they are new. Series protagonist Honor Harrington is a self-professed member of the historical school and regards the jeune ecole's ideas as Awesome, but Impractical at best, but in the later books their ideas begin to bear fruit after the two schools reached across the ideological aisle. | |
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A constant point of contention between the steamies and diesels of Thomas & Friends. Diesels like Diesel, 'Arry & Bert view themselves as modern and more efficient engines than steam engines, who they think should be scrapped to make way for them. Though more often than not put their proverbial feet in their mouths whenever they brag about their supposed superiority. | |
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When a Documentary wants to portray a position as outdated, it's common to show old Stock Footage of that position being promoted. This may be anything from a newsreel to a 1950s educational film and it may be in black and white or washed-out color, but the important thing is that the footage is clearly old enough to be wrong now! | |
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The album Pac-Man Fever was released on this principle. After Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" single became a hit, they signed a record deal with Columbia/CBS Records, who insisted on a full album of video-game songs. | |
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In Aquaman (1991), when the corrupt King Firtf's reliance on tradition proves to be a hollow attempt to retain power and attack peaceful neighbors, the people of Tritonis overthrow him and accept new ways of thinking. | |
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The Jerk parodies this in one scene. The ditzy Nouveau Riche Navin Johnson thinks the posh French restaurant is holding out when they serve him vintage wine. He demands they take the old wine away and bring him the newest wine in the house. The server is aghast, but complies. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Averted by the Adeptus Mechanicus, who believe that humanity once knew everything there is to know about technology, and that any deviation from the known and accepted Standard Template Constructs (computer blueprints that let the Imperium use standardized gear across the galaxy) is heresy. It doesn't help that the people innovating in terms of mechanical warfare either fell to Chaos or are the Tau, further reinforcing the Admech's point. | |
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Deconstructed in "Oracle" by Greg Egan. Jack Hamilton is a very old-fashioned Christian apologist in the year 1958, who was humiliated in a debate years earlier by a fellow Christian who, due to her commitment to intellectual honesty, demonstrated the flaws in all of his apologetics arguments, in the hope that Christians could hold their beliefs for legitimate reasons. All this did was convince Hamilton that Christianity is incompatible with reason, but is still objectively true, and nowadays, whenever he sees his colleagues at the university, he silently mocks them for their "fashionable" belief in materialism, as if they only did so because it was new and exciting. Of course, he gets completely proven wrong by the hero of the story, on national television this time. In other words, liking the new thing is not a fallacy if there is actually evidence that the new way is better. | |
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British Television Quiz QI is extremely guilty of this trope. The entire premise of the show is turning "popular" knowledge on its head or proving old preconceptions wrong. As a result, lots of people believe the alternative, not for the inherent value of the statement, but because it's different.. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Barney believes that new things are always better. Ted then buys ten year old scotch and makes Barney buy the newest scotch in the bar. | |
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