Thread: American rhetoricians

i don't like rhetoric in general... be it from a multinational corporation, actor, politician, the clergy or a teacher. so much of it gets distorted by personal prejudices and motives... rarely will you hear all the facts.

there are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.[/b]

anyone can mold the facts to fit their cause and that's what makes me turn off the tv.

It is a shame that America stagnates some much in it's ownself worth at times. That major corporations seem to run everything.

But there is hope, there must always be hope. You know the old saying, individuals are smart, but groups are stupid. It's true, because while the nation as a whole may be so wrapped up in itself to no see that somethings need to change. There are individuals out there that seek these changes, and yes, even one person can make a difference.

As for facts, truths, or what not. Sometimes there is no clear cut truth, because everyone sees everything differently. That's the great thing about our country, though. It allows us to have our beliefs, our truths.

We may never know who actually runs everything; as soon as you pull one thread, the whole sweater gets tighter....

Besides, as soon as we have a revolution in America everything will become right. The men and women who were fired from their jobs because their whole company went automated is an outcome that is not to hard to imagine. Please refer to my small theory on America:


American Capitalist Democracy + New Technology that's closing jobs, along with the increase in labor from foreign countries (ie, nike shoe factories, televisors in India) + Leader with great charisma= Communist America!


Think about, in less than a hundred years every factory will become automated, leaving less people in jobs. Eventually our economy will fail and the value of the dollar will lower to ludacris amounts. Forget about gas prices, you would not be able to afford a car! Crime would rise, people would starve, until finally the whole system collapses. The rich will have no one to buy their products, too, and they'd eventually dissapear...

And as long as we don't get another Stalin or Hitler, we'd be alright.

Hey wait...I could like, make a book out of this!

it's obvious that the civilians of the communist states thus far have lived really fruitful lives. ohhh wait, no.

I think the media(atleast some) will tell us anything that will get high ratings or is important, weather corporations like it not. They do not have total control over everything.

I would agree materialism is pretty bad in he US, because a lot of people have money. Its not everything for everyone though.

I see nothing wrong with using oils, though I think we really need to move away from it.

I am all for technology, I think its one of the greatest things we have. You won't believe the stuff we have now, that you just take for granted. If we did not have them you would miss them a lot.

Medicine is important, and I wouldn't say any is bad because its synthetic.

You may think living in houses suck but I don't. I live in the middle of a desert. If it wasn't for the stuff we built I couldn't live here. There isn't even enough water if there wasn't a dam built in the area. When someone says "paradise" I don't normally think of a hot dry desert, though you might.

There are a lot of greedy people though, I would agree with that. But I don't think there are as many as you make it sound like.

New Technology really does not harm jobs as much as you think. For every job that is taken by a technology a new one comes in and replaces it. Dropping hard labor intensive job and replacing it with ones where you need to think is not a bad thing, infact I think its very good. I would much rather run a computer than dig in coal mine.

Another good thing about technology is that it can make our jobs safer as well as easier.