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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .x.

I’ve noticed that those who urge others to question authority are least willing to have others question theirs. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .viii.

Stand in one room while the television is on in the other. Now see if you can distinguish the voices of Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) and Tucker Carlson (Fox News). I can’t. Notice that it’s not just their voices that are similar, it’s their style. Each sounds like a pouty prepubescent child who, in a jealous Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .iii.

I worry a little that, in this politically charged environment particularly, when someone urges you to ‘be your authentic self’ she means ‘come out here where I can get you’. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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August 25, 2020

We Habitually Dehumanize Each Other. So what?

“And since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies either my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous.” Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Dover Publications, 2004. (Original: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.) p 69 Dehumanizing others is a move we often attribute to Continue reading

Catch-All

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August 8, 2020

Aristotle and Pam on The Political Rhetor. Series. 6.1. Intro.

I’ve already published 6.2.a. The Poor, 6.2. b. Children, and 6.2.c.i. Future Generations. So this intro is out of chronological order. The most important concept for political rhetoric is the “perlocutionary speech act” as described below. “The political orator* aims at establishing the expediency** or the harmfulness of a proposed course of action; if he Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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June 27, 2020

Fist Pumping.

I’ve here in mind the fist-pumping variety of politically vocal people, those certain that one side is leading us to another dark ages and the other to a totalitarian state. It appears that for some “left and right” thinking is characterized by black and white thinking. Nuance is lost. And with this loss, so too Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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political

Thoughtlets .x.

Thoughtlets .viii.

Thoughtlets .iii.

We Habitually Dehumanize Each Other. So what?

Aristotle and Pam on The Political Rhetor. Series. 6.1. Intro.

Fist Pumping.