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Dupe entry: Victor Davis Hanson: The New Sophists
Hat tip InstapunditIn classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous "really wise guys" made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts to "prove" the most amazing "thinkery" that belied common sense. We are living in a new age of sophism -- but without a modern equivalent of Socrates to remind the public just how silly our highly credentialed and privileged new rhetoricians can often sound. History provides perspective Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-07 |
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