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I’m not so sure of that. My father managed to die twice - once when he had a heart attack while fixing a leaking roof. He collapsed onto the roof and his body very slowly began to roll toward the edge.
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All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.
We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. The willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world. There is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions.
These changes did not happen overnight. They’ve come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy. These wounds are still very deep. They have never been healed.
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.
That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.
All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path -- the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values.
I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God’s help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.
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@VegasFrank said:
As an educator, I think this is utter bullshít.
Don't take this the wrong way, but, as a whole, I think that educators are inculcating utter bullshit.
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It's too bad that you don't have such excellent command of the facts, @webmost. That was not Einstein actually said, but let's not that get in the way of a good meme I guess.
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@VegasFrank said:
As an educator, I think this is utter bullshít.
Don't take this the wrong way, but, as a whole, I think that educators are inculcating utter bullshit.
Clearly, you're educated.
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Here's the partial excerpt from Einstein's letter to Freud;
"Another question follows hard upon it: how is it possible for this small clique to bend the will of the majority, who stand to lose and suffer by a state of war, to the service of their ambitions? (In speaking of the majority, I do not exclude soldiers of every rank who have chosen war as their profession, in the belief that they are serving to defend the highest interests of their race, and that attack is often the best method of defence.) An obvious answer to this question would seem to be that the minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
It's nice to see that someone knows how to read something more than a thesaurus. Of course, the Patriot post leaves out the part about church because churches are thought to be conservative, while the press and the schools are thought to be liberal.
That's my issue with this meme and it is why I teach this exact meme in my rhetoric class. You should take it sometime @webmost. I'll even let you bring your thesaurus.
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Me too Peter, but doing so doesn't serve the agenda it was made for. Like it or not, this one is aimed toward a conservative audience. They are taking a fairly liberal person in history, Einstein, and mangling a quote so it looks like he is berating two supposed hallmark liberal institutions. If you throw church into the mix, The ultra conservatives won't spread it because many of them are churchgoers.
The ironic thing about this entire meme and letter to Freud is that Einstein is conveying what minority rule of these functions ultimately leads to commonly, namely war, And as he says it, wars caused by the persecution of racial minorities. That neither sounds like something the Patriot post wants to have out there nor does it sound to me like the Patriot Post is an organization for which Einstein wants to be attributed to.
My point with the two lectures I give regarding rhetoric in today's meme society is simple. If you only read memes, then George Bush invented no child left behind which bore the common core system, which has destroyed schools today, And Abraham Lincoln was the biggest Democrat in history because he gave the first unfunded mandate that single-handedly restricted straits rights, and it was an executive order to boot (the Gettysburg Address).
Edit: the emancipation proclamation, not the GA.
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That makes me ask, does a meme have to 100% accurate to achieve its intended outcome? IOW, the Einstein meme is flawed, but can it still contain a truth? I say yes.
@VegasFrank said:
no child left behind has destroyed schools today,
... and that's how you make a meme. It's just twitter with a picture. No rhetoric, mangled logic, nor any other pedantry is required.
But let's drop it, cause it appears I already pissed you off enough.
So I will just apologize that I am able to adduce an apophasis with apocape in an apopemptic without resorting to thesaurus, Frank. A prolific vocabulary is one of my most annoying attributes. That, and the fact I think most everything is pretty funny.
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I’m not so sure of that. My father managed to die twice - once when he had a heart attack while fixing a leaking roof. He collapsed onto the roof and his body very slowly began to roll toward the edge.
When he fell off, he landed on his side with one arm pinned beneath him. The doctor said he’d been dead for about a minute and a half but the jolt of hitting the ground got his heart started again. It broke his arm and some ribs but he lived a few more years after that
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"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
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When asked why violent crime has recently skyrocketed in NYC, AOC replied:
"Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent. So they go out and they need to feed their child and they don't have money so...they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry."
Jimmy Carter, in 1979, said:
All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.
We’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. The willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world. There is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions.
These changes did not happen overnight. They’ve come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy. These wounds are still very deep. They have never been healed.
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.
That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.
All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path -- the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values.
I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God’s help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.
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As an educator, I think this is utter bullshít.
Don't take this the wrong way, but, as a whole, I think that educators are inculcating utter bullshit.
You have an excellent command of vocabulary webmost.
It's too bad that you don't have such excellent command of the facts, @webmost. That was not Einstein actually said, but let's not that get in the way of a good meme I guess.
Clearly, you're educated.
I have been married to an educator over 17 years, have never seen or heard her udders do anything like that. 🤔
Here's the partial excerpt from Einstein's letter to Freud;
"Another question follows hard upon it: how is it possible for this small clique to bend the will of the majority, who stand to lose and suffer by a state of war, to the service of their ambitions? (In speaking of the majority, I do not exclude soldiers of every rank who have chosen war as their profession, in the belief that they are serving to defend the highest interests of their race, and that attack is often the best method of defence.) An obvious answer to this question would seem to be that the minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
Found here: https://en.unesco.org/courier/may-1985/why-war-letter-albert-einstein-sigmund-freud
It's nice to see that someone knows how to read something more than a thesaurus. Of course, the Patriot post leaves out the part about church because churches are thought to be conservative, while the press and the schools are thought to be liberal.
That's my issue with this meme and it is why I teach this exact meme in my rhetoric class. You should take it sometime @webmost. I'll even let you bring your thesaurus.
I would have the quote include church, since I fault much of what is passed for the Church today to be culpable in our culture's deterioration.
Me too Peter, but doing so doesn't serve the agenda it was made for. Like it or not, this one is aimed toward a conservative audience. They are taking a fairly liberal person in history, Einstein, and mangling a quote so it looks like he is berating two supposed hallmark liberal institutions. If you throw church into the mix, The ultra conservatives won't spread it because many of them are churchgoers.
The ironic thing about this entire meme and letter to Freud is that Einstein is conveying what minority rule of these functions ultimately leads to commonly, namely war, And as he says it, wars caused by the persecution of racial minorities. That neither sounds like something the Patriot post wants to have out there nor does it sound to me like the Patriot Post is an organization for which Einstein wants to be attributed to.
My point with the two lectures I give regarding rhetoric in today's meme society is simple. If you only read memes, then George Bush invented no child left behind which bore the common core system, which has destroyed schools today, And Abraham Lincoln was the biggest Democrat in history because he gave the first unfunded mandate that single-handedly restricted straits rights, and it was an executive order to boot (the Gettysburg Address).
Edit: the emancipation proclamation, not the GA.
That makes me ask, does a meme have to 100% accurate to achieve its intended outcome? IOW, the Einstein meme is flawed, but can it still contain a truth? I say yes.
... and that's how you make a meme. It's just twitter with a picture. No rhetoric, mangled logic, nor any other pedantry is required.
But let's drop it, cause it appears I already pissed you off enough.
So I will just apologize that I am able to adduce an apophasis with apocape in an apopemptic without resorting to thesaurus, Frank. A prolific vocabulary is one of my most annoying attributes. That, and the fact I think most everything is pretty funny.
Mother Teresa once said:
Oh, and see below