
s05e68 | The Sophistry of Gender, with Tomas Bogardus
Calmversations
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The Role of YouTube in Rhetoric
"I was a little reluctant to accept it because I watched some of the episodes of that channel. That's modern day debate and I saw some of what was going on in these internet debates," he said. "It seems to be an exercise in what philosophers would call like rhetoric." He says YouTube ecosystem is operating as a kind of filtration process for those who are naturally good at rhetoric. 'We should blame ourselves to humans have a kind of short attention span'
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