The Speech
// Filed in: Human Achievement
The Speech. I have seen/listened to only one political speech in my life and I found it beyond tedious and devoid of anything meaningful at all so I am not really qualified to speak lovingly on the topic. That said, and out in the open, the shear amount of verbiage devoted to skillfully saying absolutely nothing via the political-speech-venue is something that cannot be described in any useful fashion.
The goal of a speech is to engage people you do not know to the point that they will do what you say, but you have to do this while saying nothing of real value, or real truth, because you don’t want to be held accountable later. Countless politicians in the last 5000 years have done just that and I imagine the Human Energy spent speaking and listening to such meaningless drivel would be enough to power the Sun for 1 million years.
The goal of a speech is to engage people you do not know to the point that they will do what you say, but you have to do this while saying nothing of real value, or real truth, because you don’t want to be held accountable later. Countless politicians in the last 5000 years have done just that and I imagine the Human Energy spent speaking and listening to such meaningless drivel would be enough to power the Sun for 1 million years.
