rhetoric

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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August 29, 2020

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Truth sets you free?

TRUTH. IT’S TRUE. TELL THE TRUTH. I’M TELLING THE TRUTH. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. YOU CAN HAVE THE TRUTH WHEN YOU PRY IT OUT OF MY COLD, DEAD HANDS. TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT. TRUE FOR YOU, BUT NOT FOR ME. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. BE Continue reading

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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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November 7, 2019

The Art of Rhetoric: Working through the challenges and disagreements that arise from our shared lives. Series 4.3.

In my previous post, I suggest Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow and Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion are complementary reads. Why? Because a study of Haidt’s moral theory alongside Kahneman’s work on our cognitive/perceptual errors and biases might well make the barriers to both offering and receiving criticism Continue reading

Political Rhetoric

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rhetoric

Thoughtlets .viii.

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. Truth sets you free?

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

The Art of Rhetoric: Working through the challenges and disagreements that arise from our shared lives. Series 4.3.