JamesStallion

IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?

I love the way the two principle evils of DS9 are both motivated by a deep conviction that they have been treated unfairly.

Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as “man is the measure of all things”, that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.

With this argument in mind we can see why “rhetoric” is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.

Imma blow a gasket

The cats take valuable couch space

Remember when they AId Harris as a demon and she the result looked hot as fuck

Step 1: do not poop for three days straight

Yeah, like a working class person.

No argument was made. I am just responding with a true report from someone who has in fact met working clas speople, being one of them. They are on fact very transphobic,

I don’t enter into it. This is a common opinion amongst people with whom I have worked.