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The Political Rhetor and the Future. 6.2.b. Children
To help you navigate political rhetoric. This entry is a long read, but it’s quite interesting. (This post was originally published in 2020. I’ve done some light editing and ensured the links are active.) “Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children.” Children have little to no political voice. They can neither Continue reading
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The Political Rhetor and the Future. 6.2.a. The Poor.
To help you navigate political rhetoric. *updated from June 2020 for readability and to ensure active links See 6.1 Intro here. I’ve broken The Political Rhetor and the Future into: 6.2.a. The Poor; 6.2.b. Children; and, Future Generations 6.2.c.i. , 6.2.c.ii, & 6.2.c.iii. Subsequent posts in this series are: 6.3. Attainability of Ends; 6.4. Warnings; Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. A hitherto unpublished 2020 US ‘election decision’ ‘Toon. *with Nov 21 addendum
[*Addendum, Nov 21/24. The problem with leaving this ‘toon for such a long time is I’d forgotten everything going on in my head when I sketched it. The over (outward) and under (inward) installation of the toilet paper rolls is a statement about political polarisation. In fact there are people who have stronger views about Continue reading
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The Right(eous)ness of the Wronged: A Powerful Tool of Persuasion.
Righteous anger motivates personal crusades just as it does a march of thousands, even hundreds of thousands. *Herein, I use rhetor, orator speaker and writer interchangeably. Likewise for the words hearer, audience, judger, and reader. An overview of what Aristotle means by rhetoric and some of its features is helpful here. Aristotle defines rhetoric as, Continue reading
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A meditation on the character of a political speaker and, by extension, a voter (Oct. 31/20 with Nov. 15/20 addendum)
Loosely put, rhetoric is the art of persuasion. More specifically, on Aristotle’s definition, rhetoric is “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” We all use rhetoric to convince others of some thing or other, but some of us are more skilled than others to this end. Some become especially Continue reading
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