My own instinct is that the `serious' communication between people, factored from rhetoric or not, is mostly about entertainment. It's code that matters.
On 9/17/19, 1:22 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Sorry. I thought the name of my new company would be obvious: "Rhetor Rooter" I suppose it also could be the name of a person who cheers on rhetoricians. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:03 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake This instinct taken to an extreme might explain how someone would end-up at a Trump rally and not an Obama rally. Fear of those that can tell a complex and convincing story and cut corners in hard-to-detect ways. Individuals having such fear might be more at ease with someone that does not have these skills. Someone that makes them feel relatively good about themselves. On 9/17/19, 10:06 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Ha! "Rhetor". It's fantastic how you assembled those words so that "rhetor" seems so distasteful. I'm going to start using "rhetor" as a username for those throwaway logins I'm always having to create. On 9/17/19 9:46 AM, Jon Zingale wrote: > My favorite and perhaps most disillusioning was a > talk he gave at Google, where with maybe six people > in the room, I had the privilege to observe what a > rhetor he was capable of being. Now, I almost > never think about him or his theory. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
