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Demian Entrekin 🏴‍☠️'s avatar

Sowell talks extensively about those of us who have "verbal virtuosity." The heart of his critique is that skill with words provides the means to mislead and mystify. And in a way, this verbal virtuosity acts as a kind of proxy for charisma. We are easily snowed by crafted language, and we rarely look underneath the hood to see what's really there.

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DJ's avatar

This is precisely how I see it. Rhetoric can seize the part of our brains that *should* be immune to big man-ism and mindless traditionalism. The right bearing and use of words can turn people into something else.

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Saxxon Creative's avatar

the unslaved individual thus becomes the most dangerous to the orthodoxy of the architects of control.

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DJ's avatar

They have a complex nuance too. Still suspicious and never trusting of the state, but understanding that the Rule of Law has the greatest capacity for enabling human dignity, autonomy and potential.

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