Stream Of Commute - October 14, 2003

(these are spontaneous thoughts, flowing from head to keyboard, on the daily commute)

stream of consciousness rant - never quite know where it's going to go

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bloom in WSJ. examine his rhetoric, appeal to his authority as historian and academic, vague and generalistic references to Rome, appeal to another authority, and then a sudden shift into endorsing Clark because he's a general. weak.

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study rhetoric and persuasion. psychology, philosophy, and rhetoric. philosophy and scientific method for determining level of certainty, rhetoric and persuasion for techniques to manage uncertainty in the aims to influence.

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in and out group relations. use this as analysis tool of history, of progression of freedom, of efforts to expand enfranchisement and further inclusion.

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all students should be taught how to rhetorically parse newspaper and television. ads and features. for messages, values, and norms. for ways and means of influence, attempting to operate on them.

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rhetoric needs to be expanded to take in the psychology and study of influence and persuasion.

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the rhetoric of liberation