Right on target! 🎯 The metaphor to describe the situation is apt.
My friends and I, in England, played ‘Celts and Romans’. The Celts had a war-paint get-up with wooden axes (planks and twine), and the Romans had light sabers and motorcycle helmets. The industrious Romans, at one point, had manufactured a ballista (with bamboo cane bolts flung by bungee cord filched from a recycling centre). That was confiscated quickly! Playing the part of the Celt required some cunning as you would have to coordinate ambushes or launch missiles from treetops. Good fun 👍 Thanks for rekindling that memory.
I read less and less about “the new crazy thing the left is doing” and more about affirming my values/faith and making connections with those who share them
The amount of discipline required to not make stupid mistakes in fear of amplifying counter response is unrealistic. It would be better if one could lean on a set of cultural references instead of making arguments in the first place. Imagine if she said, “How lazy are you guys to not be aware of _, that is what I believe.” then bolster it with an active understanding of such culture or art.
At that point, there is a need to attack or corrupt the source. The very item that grants the argument becomes the love and bound that unites disparate people. It also gives power to the person who tries to fix the problem to proclaim, “I am like _”, which is always a powerful viewpoint.
At some level, there is an immense capacity for signal-boosting culture within the right, but it seems to go unused or wasted on sterile media.
Right on target! 🎯 The metaphor to describe the situation is apt.
My friends and I, in England, played ‘Celts and Romans’. The Celts had a war-paint get-up with wooden axes (planks and twine), and the Romans had light sabers and motorcycle helmets. The industrious Romans, at one point, had manufactured a ballista (with bamboo cane bolts flung by bungee cord filched from a recycling centre). That was confiscated quickly! Playing the part of the Celt required some cunning as you would have to coordinate ambushes or launch missiles from treetops. Good fun 👍 Thanks for rekindling that memory.
Thomas dropped a series on ‘Rhetorical Combat’ several years ago ... https://open.substack.com/pub/realthomas777/p/rhetorical-combat?r=2y7jj6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post ... it would be cool to get him on the pod to develop these ideas for newbies like me
I read less and less about “the new crazy thing the left is doing” and more about affirming my values/faith and making connections with those who share them
The amount of discipline required to not make stupid mistakes in fear of amplifying counter response is unrealistic. It would be better if one could lean on a set of cultural references instead of making arguments in the first place. Imagine if she said, “How lazy are you guys to not be aware of _, that is what I believe.” then bolster it with an active understanding of such culture or art.
At that point, there is a need to attack or corrupt the source. The very item that grants the argument becomes the love and bound that unites disparate people. It also gives power to the person who tries to fix the problem to proclaim, “I am like _”, which is always a powerful viewpoint.
At some level, there is an immense capacity for signal-boosting culture within the right, but it seems to go unused or wasted on sterile media.