Modern Trivium Part IV: Rhetoric

Great that you’re back posting regularly again. Some of the most thoughtful content on YouTube.

I think that public speaking's decline can be clearly seen in many professors who lecture as they don't engage, stumble over their words, and basically copy and paste from the book.

To offer what feels like a cliche idea to me; I have long felt that learning to write is the same as learning to speak, just more slowly. It is the tai-chi of communication. To learn to speak, learn to write. And to learn these things, you will learn to think with clarity, as the Tai-chi master moves with confidence and grace even when not going through forms.

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Great video on rhetoric

14:00 I have felt this kind of thing on both sides. I'm self aware enough to know when I don't know why I like something, and it's frustrating. But it's very frustrating when others can't explain why they like something. Or, to an equal extent on both sides, dislike something. It doesn't help me that my mind is effectively a black box, I have no inner voice, no inner speech, no monologue. What I like in a story is marginally easier. But most often, the best explanation I can offer for why I like a thing is because I like it. It's especially problematic in persuading contexts, where people are trying to recommend something to me, and, teaching tried it, I found something about it I noticeably disliked and, after spending quite a bit of time working out exactly what 8 dislike, the conservation falling apart when no one else had a problem, no one being able to recognize the problem, and insisting I should keep trying it because they liked it so obviously whatever my problem with it is all in my head, as of likability is objective and that in my head is irrelevant.

well said......amazing we don't even consider public speaking @ all; intelligent/wise people really dislike 'small-talk' NPC's so often pit into cliches. Thank you for reminding me what to focus/contemplate.... [a] ''lost art'' well put brother.

You can see what you talked about in the beginning very powerfully at work in toddlers between the age 1.5 and 3. They basically know what they want to say, but they just can't, either because they lack the words or they just can't formulate them with their mouth. The result is they get REALLY angry at themselves, you (why don't you get it?!) and the unjustice of the World.

I study rhetoric pretty heavily esspecially acient greek-roman rhetoric I havnt watch it yet, so I'm exited to see what are your opinions!