• logos@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure if this is good news or bad but it’s the same damn problem since 380BCE

      Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

      • Plato
    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
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      More power to you. I feel like I understand this well enough just from following politics over the last 8 years, and I kinda hate how I have to break my brain to understand what politicians are actually saying. I do it as a necessity to remain an engaged citizen, not for fun 😂