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Preparation 8 — Thinking Forward vs Thinking Backward

Preparation 8 — Thinking Forward vs Thinking Backward

We tend to crash when not looking ahead, back behind us, or down at a map.Continue Reading

What is Rhetoric? Part 4 — It’s Law

What is Rhetoric? Part 4 — It’s Law

Law is scary, law is hard, and law is a language. We literally use law to rule our lives, which are Rhetorical on all sides. Whether we’re arguing nations into existence, or arguing about when we begin to exist, the reach of any law is a Rhetorical one.Continue Reading

What is Rhetoric? Part 3 — It’s Politics

What is Rhetoric? Part 3 — It’s Politics

If politics were a painting, Rhetoric is the medium it’s brushed in, the hair on the bristles, the canvas it’s placed on, the building it hangs in, and the gaze it’s viewed by. There’s never not Rhetoric in politics, only better or worse Rhetoric employed, and on increasingly crowded avenues.Continue Reading

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