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The Rhetoric of the High
The word was created in the 22nd century during a moment of big political upheaval involving charismatic political leaders who would have introduced this concept using rhetoric. So I thought what rhetorical image would be a plausible one for those 22nd century rhetoritians to use? Francis Bacon's simile of the three insects which he uses in his case to introduce science. He says there are three kinds of scientists. The two bad kinds are the amped which hoards information, the spider which spins elaborate theories out of its own body without any kind of actual coherent relationship to nature. And then the experimental scientist as Bacon wanted people to be who is the honeybee and harvests the fruits of nature and