Oratory

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>>3115626

Teleprompters kinda lowered the speech skill threshold for being a politician.

David Hume actually wrote a very interesting essay on this (link bellow). He wrote about how modern people had developed on all of the great talents of the ancients (technology, philosophy and governance) except for rhetoric.

He argued two reasons why this might be the case; the first was that great orators tend to have a background in law/justice and in ancient times laws were relatively few and vague hence being a good lawyer or judge relied not on research ability and reason so much as charisma unlike in the modern legal system.

Hence without this central training ground for oratory the practice diminished in relevance and use.

The second and more optimistic was that society had matured and saw the dangers in and manipulation that flows from oratory.

The third and probably weaker argument was that there was less great/terrible events and opportunities to inspire great oratory.
http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL13.html

>>3115626
Consumer Capitalism has been destroying the average persons's capability to understand complex language.

We've become an image-centric culture.

>>3115626
Say a politician gives a classic "Oratory" style speech. All it takes is one dickhead making a youtube video of them side by side with Hitler, and there goes the career.

Probably declined due to the rise of media, how can you be a good politician based on your speeches when image and lifestyle are captured everywhere, plus every little thing you say matters.

Also people tend to care more today about what they want to hear and defaming other politicans than nice speeches.

Still, if someone with Churchills skill happened today i think they'd go far.

Trump is a good example, while not a skilled speaker in physically speaking, he clearly knew the right things to say and when to say them in his rallies and debates.

>>3115919
>Trump is a good example, while not a skilled speaker in physically speaking, he clearly knew the right things to say and when to say them in his rallies and debates.
Not to go le he is literally hitler, but like Hitler he was able to play upon the fears of the lower class so I wouldn't exactly call him a Churchill

>>3115933
Yeah Trump is much more Hitler than Churchill.

Churchills style was to encourage his people and stand with them. Hitler's was LE JEWS and MUH RACE

>>3115919
>Trump is a good example, while not a skilled speaker in physically speaking

Gotta disagree here. Trump is the pinnacle of a physical speaker in the age of television. Having spent thirty years working on image, every hand motion is carefully placed some that all of them land comfortably in the frame, while still looking energetic

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