Logic through the looking glass.
2/18/2002
Antilogic, says author McComish, shouldn't be confused with the absence of logic. Instead, it is "logic through the looking glass, just like logic, but reversed." He believes that businesses use antilogic all the time to justify their actions. Writing before the Enron collapse, McComish takes shots at corporate accountants, who under pressure, seemingly always find ways to explain, rationalize, or otherwise shine a light away from trouble spots. The author finds many examples in many areas of antilogic, which may help explain why you sometimes feel you are operating in a universe in which you don't know the rules, such as when your company's stock price drops after releasing a good earnings report. Whether you believe McComish or not you have to admire his unique view, written with an entertaining sense of outrage.