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Re:Are we losing our ability to remember? by Swizec on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:02AM (#24918812)
Greek oration was all about weaponized attention grabbing and getting people to join your school not those other terrible terrible oh so bad schools.

We’ve had weaponized attention grabbing as long as wemve had humans I bet.

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Re:Are we losing our ability to remember? by me_me_me on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:21AM (#24919007)
It was an art of oration.

Not a science driven exploitation of basic human instincts.

They didn't have a focus groups A-B testing and neurological studies back then.

That's a bit like saying that the impact on climate change back 1000 years ago and now is the same, as in both cases we are releasing carbon into atmosphere.

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Re:Are we losing our ability to remember? by marcosdumay on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:09AM (#24919621)
It was the closest they had to a science, and it was aimed at manipulating the listener in a predetermined way.

The fact that it was mostly applied at civil politics tells more about their society than about the tool...

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