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Friday, March 21, 2003
The Net as rhetoric - David Weinberger, Journal of Hyperlinked Organizations
Rhetoric has gotten a bad rap. It's come to mean shady or superfluous verbosity, which is more or less the opposite of what it actually means: persuasive talk. Aristotle, who wrote a bestseller called "The Rhetoric," understood rhetoric could indeed be misused to bamboozle the listener, but was interested in it primarily because it is a way of bringing others to see the truth of the world. In a political environment in which the future of the state was determined by the ability of the community to see the truth, rhetoric was of no small importance. And so it still should be. In fact, one of the best ways to view the Internet is as a hotbed of RD (Rhetoric Development).
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