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Lysias: The Great Master of Speech (Part IA')
Lysias’ amazing narrative skill is made abundantly clear in his speech entitled “An Apology for the Murder of Eratosthenes” Scholars consider Lysias’s simplicity – fruit of his systematic effort to put himself in the shoes of the people he was writing about – and his amazing narrative ability to be the great, distinct advantages of Lysias’ judicial speeches. This last virtue is made abundantly…
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Better redundant than regretful.
The truth is that I am devoted not merely to the prose of the past—Byron’s dashes, Henry James’s semicolons, and so on—but to the natural flow and undulations of thought as it is embodied in language, or (alternatively) to the flow and undulations of language as it crafts the mysterious connections of thought. I find nothing more horrid in the realm of the written word than prose constructed entirely from short declarative sentences, mortared together into something like the textual equivalent of a drab brick ranch house. My preference, by many orders of magnitude, runs in the direction of those vast paragraphs of Krasznahorkai’s, in which semicolons often number in the dozens and periods are almost vanishingly rare.
David Bentley Hart
You know, it's really interesting that the left will tie itself in knots to avoid spreading right wing rhetoric.
Like, I get that you don't want to help the other guys, but the person reading a paper called something like "right wing extremism in memes" is probably not looking for memes to show their friends. Do you really need to Uber sanatize a wojack meme.
This is especially interesting because the right will post entire leftist essays with a rebuttal at the bottom. These rebuttals are usually much shorter. More tightly written, but a certain person might skip it.
It is easy to just say that the left is just being stupid, but people usually have reasons for doing things, even if they're flawed, and those reasons are usually worth interrogating.
First, the reason you will likely hear: racist content is a memetic agent that can injure and forcibly convert the innocent. Obviously they don't say it that way, but I have seen a lot of rhetoric like that, and that's what it boils down to.
I find this highly unconvincing, because when I was in high school I got a lot of flack for a lot of reasons. I was strange, religious, and white, which were not popular things to be, and had a poor understanding of how to make and keep friends. I was called a lot of things. And do you know what I was told when that hurt? Skill issue. Try harder. Toughen up
And they were right.
Yes, words hurt, but someone who can't manage the pain is easily swayed.
An alternative theory is that for a significant portion of the left, if they pose the opposition statement with their counter argument, that many find the statement more convincing than the argument. Which. Is a phenomena I have experienced.
And won't comment on.
And while Walhart is an antagonist, he's a markedly less villainous one than the Grimleal.
Walhart is pale gray, not dark skinned.
And I do have a problem with the narrative being "all like Walhart just wanted to kill all Grimleal, he's not a bad guy, its the fault of the Grimleal that Chrom fought him."
Again with the inspiration for the Grimleal, the main characters of the 90s game explicitly rule out trying to wipe them out as just continuing the cycle of hatred.
(In response to this post)
First off, Walhart compared to Chrom.
Walhart isn't "black," but he's certainly not white(ish) like most of the heroes.
More importantly: You might have noticed that what I said about Walhart was not in fact the end of that post. I spent a paragraph and a half describing how various darker-skinned characters in the game are Less Bad than the Grimleal, before spending two and a half paragraphs criticizing those characters from a racial angle.
My conclusion was not that FEA is non-racist, but that “its racism is more nuanced than 'Grimleal bad'”. Some of the non-whtie(ish) characters are racist because they're obvious villains, but others are racist because of their heroic qualities, etc etc.
Starting with the less overtly racist elements was a rhetorical technique I call "steelmanning". It's the opposite of a strawman argument, where you create an intentionally weak version of an argument you disagree with, to make it really easy to argue against. A steelman arguments starts by briefly outlining the strongest possible version of the argument you disagree with, so you can show that even that version is flawed.
I focused on characters other than the Plegians because to be blunt, your ask covered them well enough. But talking about Fire Emblem Awakening's racism/colorism as though Plegian villains were the only characters with a skin tone darker than an Aryan shut-in is incomplete.
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The more we practice these, the more habitual they become. What starts as a conscious interruption of the feed’s pace turns, over time, into a different relationship with information altogether. The pause stops feeling like an extra step layered onto reading and becomes part of how we read in the first place. We begin to notice things we used to miss. An unfamiliar byline starts to register where it used to slip past. A clipped quote begins to feel suspicious, and the gap between what a study found and how a headline characterizes its findings becomes visible to us. Catching things like these is what attention does when it has the time and space to do its work.
Misinformation Spreads at the Speed of Impatience
Every day that goes by I become more certain that the classical Romans were objectively correct that rhetoric is as essential to education as mathematics or history. Not so that the student can convince others, but that they will know when and how others are trying to convince them.
