Looks to me like it’s completely the opposite energy, that is self aware and self deprecating.

All cars are death machines

Sounds to me like you think a beard is nothing more than an affectation

estan las palabras al cancion favorita de mi esposa, I’m not even a little bit latino. Just can’t get those two songs out of my head.

Si eres latino, saca tu bandera

Tengo tengo tengo en mi alma ritmo ritmo ritmo y calor

George Bush, great president, or the greatest president?

Canada has a law to this effect called the Clarity Act to make sure that Quebec never votes for independence by a margin like this.

ok.

and yet the entire enlightenment political infrastucture we have built is based on their ideas.

I live in Canada and am not a US citizen and somehow I receive requests addressed to someone named Buck to support Ted Cruz.

Same in Montreal but wére fïně

Sure Trump is corrupt, but is this really new?

I mean, there’s SodaStream

This should be the premise of an actual episode

Zappa was no hippy

IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?

I love the way the two principle evils of DS9 are both motivated by a deep conviction that they have been treated unfairly.

Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as “man is the measure of all things”, that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.

With this argument in mind we can see why “rhetoric” is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.

Remember when they AId Harris as a demon and she the result looked hot as fuck