The Donald May Be Politically Finished-but His Style Of Speaking Is The Wave Of The Fut... - 1 views
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the most interesting explanation for Trump’s rhetoric is that it represents the purest form to date of what is the wave of the future—in which political communication, once mediated by writing, is increasingly liberated by mass media technology and restored to the style of plain speech.
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I argued that it was no accident that the virulence of our political rhetoric has risen neatly alongside such inventions as YouTube and high-speed internet connections. Writing, the piece noted, is conscious and slow, and allows an intellectual distance less likely in speech, which is more about the “I” (witness, therefore, the self-directed focus of most rap, a highly “spoken” form of music). Earlier politicians had to rely on writing and speechifying—talking “in writing”—which are better suited for the more cerebral realms
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of ambiguity and extended argument. Talk, which comes in packets of, on the average, about ten words at a time, is all about the immediate and the emotional. Today’s broadband, podcasts, and streaming allow one person to get immediate and emotional with the entire nation whenever they feel like it.