My Good and extremely Popular opinions: 1. Politic's at funerals is a fine Western tradition 2. . . . if done well but you know what pal you're not Marc Antony and you're not Pericles, buddy you're Brutus and your oration is embarrassinghttps://twitter.com/pipandbaby/status/1036233125062475777 …
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Let’s take a peek inside what’s happening in the institutions that traditionally encouraged good oration...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8 …
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Communication classes, which have filled the function that oration training did in classical liberal arts education, now heavily emphasize power point presentations. In this way we do have viral “great speeches”- they’re called Ted Talks.
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The only remaining places where you can find solid oration training is among clerical schools and theater. Both have large audiences they orate to.
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In my mind though I think that the most probable cause is the “democratization” of mass culture.https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-have-presidential-speeches-changed-throughout-histo-1645221207 …
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Basically what you’re probably yearning for is a style of speaking that used to exist because of the relative exclusivity of a high society all of whom were versed in Latin and the western canon, and who were giving speeches primarily for other learned men.
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