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well why couldn't he just SAY that?

• j_baker 16y ago
  Why did Abraham Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address instead of just saying "Let's go reunite the Union"? Why did Martin Luther King Jr give his "I Have a Dream" speech instead of just saying "Blacks should be equal to whites"? Why does Steve Jobs give huge keynote speeches instead of just saying "We're making a new iPhone/MacBook/iPod"? Sometimes stating things simply up front undermines your point and you need to get people to understand your train of thought.
  • makeramen 16y ago
    Lincoln and King were inspirational in their speeches, and they made sense. This article was so convoluted and schizophrenic my head was spinning by the end of it. If that was the effect the author was going for, then more power to him. Otherwise, I would say this guy is far from the likes of Lincoln and King.
    • j_baker 16y ago
      I didn't find it difficult to read. Perhaps a bit involved for the attention span of the average reader on the average news aggregator, but not a difficult read. I may just be odd though.
      • pzxc 16y ago
        It was tougher than the "fast food" we're all used to reading these days, but then, so was Shakespeare. I'm not saying this article was worthy of the Bard, but I am saying there is something to be said for packing a lot of meaning into a few words. "Julius Caesar betrayed by closest advisor" may be the kind of synopsis we're used to reading but I for one appreciated the subtle undertones in this article like "Azure economy" and "collapse of trust messaging". That said, I strongly dislike the way Apple has tried to blackball Flash, can't say I'm sorry to see Google push back a little on Adobe's behalf (though of course they're doing it for their own interests, as the article states).
  • trotsky 16y ago
    Is the answer that Lincoln and King were getting paid by the word? Because that's what it is here.