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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Kind of in awe at the lack of good oration in the postmodern Western tradition actually Have there been any notable good speeches in the last 30 years? Something something irony culture?
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I think this is actually bad I don't like cultural monism but some cohesion is salutary and a solid widely-consumed speech can effect that Maybe it's not possible at the point, idk messy causal structure
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Yeah I halfway had that thought But ancient orators had only small/local audiences, right? Gettysburg Address was just local at first You'd think a good speech could go viral, too
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