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Nick Thompson on
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Sorry. I thought the name of my new company would be obvious:
"Rhetor Rooter"
I suppose it also could be the name of a person who cheers on rhetoricians.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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This instinct taken to an extreme might explain how someone would end-up at a Trump rally and not an Obama rally.
Fear of those that can tell a complex and convincing story and cut corners in hard-to-detect ways. Individuals having such fear might be more at ease with someone that does not have these skills. Someone that makes them feel relatively good about themselves.
On 9/17/19, 10:06 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <
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Ha! "Rhetor". It's fantastic how you assembled those words so that "rhetor" seems so distasteful. I'm going to start using "rhetor" as a username for those throwaway logins I'm always having to create.
On 9/17/19 9:46 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> My favorite and perhaps most disillusioning was a
> talk he gave at Google, where with maybe six people
> in the room, I had the privilege to observe what a
> rhetor he was capable of being. Now, I almost
> never think about him or his theory.
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