Covfefe - The Evolution of Language
We will also examine how words come into being and how language evolves because of widespread use of a particular word that enters the zeitgeist. Obama was right to focus on the idea that "Words Matter" though he took those words from another speaker. That co-opting of this message ["Just Words" originally uttered by Deval Patrick] is not what matters, the idea that words matter is what matters :
In the scripted universe we live in, it is well worth reminding ourselves that many of the speeches that were considered to be Obama's best were not written by him, but by his speechwriters. At Toastmasters we can study those speechwriters but we can also marvel at Obama's delivery - to take those words that final mile.
Trump reminds us as students that going unscripted comes with peril and the more responsible the work we do is, the greater the potential and possible magnitude of that peril. Scripted politics and branded life have become a necessity because we live in a punishment culture, a culture that is more ready to destroy a person for a single mistake, than to build people up, recognize that mistakes are a part of conscious learning but that corruption is not. So what do we do knowing that we can now live in a scripted world that can protect the corrupt, but not in a free world that can tolerate free speech? The answer seems to be more and not less scripted existence and the more we protect ourselves, the more we apt to punish others.
Who wants to live in a world where we are constantly watching our back because that is far removed from the idea of or the virtue possible in that idea which we call freedom. Virtue here is the place where freedom and character meet. That meeting intersection is a really good place as far as my own opinion is concerned. On Saturday we can explore this as students of communication and as explorers of freedom and whatever opinion or thought we get to, the net result of this will be an education in self-leadership - where leaders can benefit in being students.
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CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #1
Dear David, the media cannot have it both ways. in that they commented that during the debates that Trump could not see Clinton's baiting tactics and were critical of Trump for taking the bait. So how can the media comment on how easily Trump took Clinton's bait, that they could not see themselves taking Trump's bait. What was Trump's bait? The one thing that commercial media companies salivate for which is ratings. Just as the media were complicit in not following through on fact checking weapons of mass destruction but instead became a mouthpiece of the Bush Whitehouse, they also undermined the value of the Fourth Estate by taking the bait of Trump's ratings. The result of taking the ratings bait was that coverage for the 17 Republican Primary candidates was skewed. Trump not only knew the ratings bait was an effective strategy for him, but he even held court by withdrawing himself from a debate because he felt he could command ratings by holding his own debate. To allow ratings to determine coverage turned the Primaries into a Reality TV Show. Trump did not beat an exceptional line up of Republican candidates, he got them fired as the media took his ratings bait, and he stood in the middle of the debate telling other candidates that they are next to go - and that they are at the end of the line. Where was the Fourth Estate when the media dined on Trump's ratings bait, I will tell you where they were, counting their collective profits, it is they (commercial media who took Trump's bait. Here is Thomas Carlyle's quote from Stanford's review of the Fourth Estate "The fact of the matter is that democracy requires informed citizens." https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-11/Journalism/index7f0d.html?page_id=16 IMHO Democracy certainly does not require the ratings that created reality news and not just reality television.