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>> The art of 19th and 20th century rhetoric and wordplay is dead. What are you on about? With YouTube/Instagram/Snapchat the rhetoric is even more valuable be
by heavenlyblue 7y ago
>> The art of 19th and 20th century rhetoric and wordplay is dead.
What are you on about? With YouTube/Instagram/Snapchat the rhetoric is even more valuable because whatever you say on record is going to be multiplied another million times.
In the 19th and 20th century the chance was that whatever you said would never reach anybody past you closest friends and family.
- EGreg 7y agoThat’s completely different. People didn’t joke around to make it available for millions of people on replay. They did it for fun! Today we get fun from watching porn and speaking in quick bursts amid our increasingly hectic lives. The apps you mentioned just feed us entertainment like the TV did back in the day, and send endless notifications. Most people’s speech isn’t like it was 100 years ago because back then that’s how they entertained themselves back then. For the same reason people don’t play piano as much.