It always strikes me how people can put a bunch of innocuous, perfectly fine words together and make them mean something so ugly.
The Patron Saints of Patronization
Tag: rhetoric
Rhetoric Necrotic
The internety death of productive arguing, Aristotle rolls over in his pathos, and everyone disagrees to disagree.
Shallow Truths and the Deep Fake
We’ve figured a way to make everything a lie by igniting a flicker of doubt with the proof of our ability to distort the truth. Our ability to lie has increased exponentially, and it is multiplied by the factor of our desire to be lied to. We will come to a point where we believe [...]
Joseph D. Newcomer 