"You Are Being Lied To": A Rhetorician's Toolkit for Effective Persuasion
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- čas přidán 19. 12. 2023
- This presentation is based on an updated version of an old but evergreen lecture I gave almost a decade ago featuring the figures of rhetoric and their use in literature, modern politics, marketing, activism, etc.
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00:04 An exploration of rhetoric as a toolkit for effective communication
03:54 Understanding the components of rhetoric is crucial for effective persuasion.
11:07 Rhetoric can be used to manipulate and deceive
14:51 Rhetorical devices like climax and antithesis aim to influence values and perceptions.
21:23 Repetition emphasizes contrasts for a powerful message
24:38 Alliteration and paranomasia are ancient rhetorical devices with significant impact on modern language and advertising.
30:49 Rhetorical devices like figura etymologica, polyptoton, and zeugma manipulate language for effective persuasion.
33:48 Rhetorical devices like zeugmas, syllepses, anadiplosis, and synonymia demonstrate the power of brevity, emotion, and intellectual clarity in effective persuasion.
40:10 Cicero's use of praeteritio was a clever way to insinuate allegations without seeming to focus on them.
43:14 Effective persuasion techniques involve using antonomasia and hyperbole
50:09 Understanding grammar, logic, and rhetoric empowers critical engagement with information.
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Wanna talk about meta, this guy used rhetoric to teach rhetoric so he could warn you about people using rhetoric
And so did you. 😂
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Being able to articulate your thoughts to others is a powerful tool.
True Story! : )
It is *the* most powerful tool.
especially when one takes in concern that thinking happens without us. But, the moment we identify with a certain idea, it becomes mine. (::) "ego mind = emotionally guarded opinions by my mental individual aka my person-ality". [Identified with ego = hell & truth = Being in the heart]
Articulating thoughts? Bless your heart, this is about inferring obligations upon others wherein no obligation previously existed. The mental enslavement of humans.
@@CoolChannelName yeah but you can't do that without articulating your thoughts well, can you?
I taught college rhetoric for 40 years. This is well done. Much needed in our current world.
@captainmaxwell5017the owners of record labels have interests connecting them to
private prisons
@captainmaxwell5017 I believe you meant rappers, as in those who rap, and not rapers, as in those who rape.
@captainmaxwell5017grammar.
@captainmaxwell5017
I wish, I just had someone that spoke to make themselves look stupid, with half the time and experience, but was a decent-looking woman get promoted over me. But it's okay because now my manager looks like an idiot for promoting her.😏
40 Years? Good God man
This explained more in less than and hour than four different college classes did in three years
Which courses, specifically?
@@eIicit all of them
Sydney?
@@anthonygeorge3689lol couldnt name one 💀
@@duvvly or its been over a decade lol
This helped me 8 years ago, now it helps my teenage son. This is a VERY important lecture. Thank you Dan, from the bottom of my heart.
Thanks Nicola, wouldn't have done it without your encouragement!
@@TheModernHermeticist That really does mean a lot to me. Thank you Dan!
Truely awesome 😊🙏🏼💙
@@SleepyMagii It is😁 I've learned so much from Dan that I'd never learn elsewhere. Now my kid can benefit from this like I have. I've been saying to him for years pearls trodden by swine are still pearls but a polished turd is still a turd. 😂 He understood that once I explained it. ♥️💫♥️
You are a rare mother ❤
5:17 Four components of effective rhetoric (Logos, Pathos, Ethos, Chiros)
11:58 Anaphora
14:15 Climax
16:25 Anticlimax
16:40 Antithesis
18:15 Parison
19:15 Chiasmus
22:50 Isocolon
24:30 Alliteration
26:30 Paranomasia 29:40 Figura Etymolagica
31:08 Polyptoton
32:45 Zeugma
34:35 Anadiplosis
36:24 Synonimia
37:28 Antimetabole
38:30 Timesis
39:10 Praeteritio
41:30 Onomatopaeia
42:40 Metonomy 42:50 Synechdoche
43:00 Antonomasia
43:40 Hyperbole
🍪Here's a nice chocolate chip for your service, I was going to leave a comment that the original vlogger should consider time stamp markers.
Thank you
Love how you tube comments adds, "translate to english" on this one ! 😂
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Definitely appreciate rhetorical analysis being incorporated into the Hermetic orbit, as vital work of the mind. Understanding how the powers of the mind work, and can be manipulated into, ascribing goodness, truth, beauty, and authority are vitally important both to help protect us from the effects of nefarious forces (such as advertising and propaganda), but also to gain a better understanding of how the mind works in general. Thanks once again for all your work!
The kicker is that Hermeticism relies on these rhetorical devices to fold people into the cult.
The way out is defiantly through. Great work Dan.
Stumbled across you.
Mind blown!
I'm a Theatre and Speech teacher.
Had never realized these aspects of Rhetoric.
Now I have to explore your other lectures.
Thank you ✨️ 🎭
- "All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players"
William Shakespeare
A very unlikely video I hesitated to click on but I am so glad I did. Language is magic and it is pertinent that schools no longer teach English language both oral and written, to a proficient level, thereby reducing the capacity to understand what is really being said.
And as a case in point; you completely failed to use the word pertinent correctly.
@@6Sparx9😂 good catch!
Dan! You did it, this is such an important lecture... It has helped me a lot over the last 8 years or so. Thank you so much for posting.
Guys, please share this with your loved ones. My now teenage son is learning from this as I did in my 20s and still learning from in my 30s... ❤
Brilliant. Being open minded with healthy skepticism and discernment is key. Im also old enough to have seen more conspiracies then not be more true vs theoretical. Ask why and how more incl how/why certain terms etc ended up in our zeitgeist esp the last few decades. Be a student vs follower and use critical independent thinking. Mirage Men, Man who knew too much and documentaries with journalist Jim Pilger maybe eye opening and tie in with this video. Cheers
I just remembered that I did a presentation on rhetoric in my first semester of college. Glad I still remember most of these points, now that I'm reminded of them.
Your presentation using art is wonderful. Listening in how you teach us about different things, is very interesting and enjoyable. I'm glad I found your channel 😄
Thank you
I'm so pleased that your channel popped up in my algorithm! Beautiful slides, rich information and a soothing pace make this a video worth saving and rewatching. I'm looking forward to diving into your channel. Thank you so much!
THIS is the kind of content i like. I LOVE the visual.aids. I used to ma ke my own prints at home in my kitchen. My idol is Albrecht Durer. I took out this huge Durer coffee table book out of the Library in WNY, that they actually gave it to me!
What a fantastic exploration, I had no idea I required such illumination. Can't get that in school! THIS IS THE SCHOOL!
I found this lecture to be rich in mind, careful in thought, and compelling in affect. Pleasant art, perfect heart, potent as a poisoned dart, an intrigue from the very start. Well enough the words did reach, through crowded thoughts and Swarming beliefs. My mind did see the shade of what was shone, stlll its depth, and breath, are yet.... not full known.
Nice is this as this is done..
This is the best video I've encountered in a while. You've given me a respect for the skill of rhetoric and a vocabulary to explore and explain its depths. Thank you.
Superb, high quality presentation on how we can practically see and also use these in our daily lives. Thank you for taking the pains - such love!
All the "cool esoterica kids" from YT (this channel, Dr. Sledge, Gnostic Informant, Revelando el Velo, etc.) just fill my heart with so much love and wisdom... Thank you for existing!
New Discourses ;D
Refreshing, well put together, powerful! Thank you so much
I thought this one sounded familiar! I'm glad you're representing this one. I've been thinking about the Trivium lately, and was reflecting on your earlier lectures.
Dear Sir, What a wonderfully dense, meaningful, exciting, relevant, soothing while incisive, and refreshing video! The quality of thought and care of articulation put me on a parallel timeline that lacked the confusion and aggressive quality to many presenters and certainly to any news feed, no matter the side they are on. Well done! I have learned a lot and will listen again to cement the lesson and look for examples out there in order to keep steady!😊
Absolutely brilliant. A fascinating adventure untangling the web's of linguistic gymnastics. Your clarity reveals the hidden hands of moving nations. "The pen is mightier than the sword."
Thank you. I appreciate the time and care it surely took to prepare all those examples - well done.
Very well explained and applied. It is now (as always) particularly timely and also particularly needed, in general and in the particular. Thnanks!
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda
fear to anger anger to hate hate to suffering idk i think suffering comes first before fear suffering of not being informed proper or knowledgeable creating fear
and anger anger can happen without fear just rage and hate comes through suffering not other way around does it?
life is pain life is suffering
I really appreciate how you presented this. Good job!
Dang. This was rich! I am a CZcams junky, and I can not think of another video as satisfying as this one - gobs of useful, pertinent information - profundity without being ponderous - levity with being frivolous . . . . . . . . . . . . N'wait. Did I just do something rhetorical there?
Very well done. This was comprehensive, well organized and well spoken. I found it very informative. Thank you.
Wonderful lecture, thank you for the invaluable knowledge!
While watching, I heard myself saying 'the most delightful video ever'. Inspiring vision this one of yours. Thanks so much.
Thank you so Very Much.I will continue to follow,learn and support your channel.
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
There's a bit of ironic contradiction in this statement.
Contradictio.
Lao Tzu its a tautology
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I like it! Did you make it up yourself?
Just want to say a quick and heartfelt thank you for all of your videos and the cut of your jib when presenting these amazing truthful ideas but this video above all shows true humility and a wanting for a better world and that lets me know I have found a very good Channel and a better man.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I like the dramatic pause after you said "dramatic pause"
Fascinating stuff. Somehow, telling me nothing i didn't already [superficially] know, but in an engaging and delightful manner, leaving me enlightened, educated and entertained.
My favourite and most valuable video this month if not year. Thank you!
Wow! Thanks. This is precious and your work is important. Solid!
The artwork in this is nice as well. Nice work.
Dan you leave me breathless.
Infinite gratitude goes out to you.
Sorely needed. Its amazing how many of these devices I use all the time without conscious realization.
I just received the book 48 Laws of Power on a lark, and your video popped up on my feed. ' Slipping in a value judgment. ' Well done, great stuff, I'm hooked.
This was great. Thanks so much for doing this. Communication has been devalued in so many ways. Not just effective output, but input, people don't know how to properly listen anymore.
For anyone that is interested, I personally think all the Greek Appeals are important for effective rhetoric. Nomos, Mythos, Oikos, Telos are the others (Custom/Culture, Belief/Story, Community/Family, Purpose). They can probably be lumped in with Ethos, but they would be methods of Ethos, and methods we ought to be aware of.
I've just been pursuing the gnostic texts on my own, finding this channel has been fantastic. Cheers!
That was amazing. I've needed help with the rhetoric stage of the Trivium
these videos where you teach from your mind rather than reading from old books are truly illucidating. i greatly appreciate you bridging the gaps by pointing out the contemporary significance of all the wisdom you share.
Elucidating. No hate or disrespect, I just thought you'd appreciate the correction.
Elements of Eloquence
Keep up the exceptional job, Dan 👏
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I'll be listening to this a million times 😁
Fabulous:-D
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So important in this age of deception and lying🙏🏽
Thank you for this timely lecture.
Do you think it would be possible for you to do a follow up type of video to this one on spotting rhetorical fallacy? I think that would be very helpful in this day in age.
I’d love this!
the ad hominem and straw man arguments are so prevalent and many people fall for them
@@amanitamuscaria7500 yep, as well as false dilemma aka false choice, which he did briefly touch upon in this video. There's so many other relevant fallacies to be aware of, too. I'm also interested in how they can overlap.
@@WildAlchemicalSpiritalso cognitive biases
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Brilliant - one of the most captivating pieces of material I hav3 listened to, in some time! Bravo! critical thinking/ logic / reasoning. This touches on intuition in such a subtle way, leaning towards emotional intelligence. The triad of disciplines - knowing the lay of the land! Blessings to you on you're path - grounded creative thinking! such nuggets! The way out is through- understand - inner stand, over stand rhetoric! Solstice 2023! Thank you for the wisdom!
It's been one of the most important lectures I've ever heard. ♥️🙏🏼
Tell people what they want to hear, never admit to being wrong, always remember that you do not have to believe what you say, take advantage of your tone and its effect on emotion, make usage of loose connections/white lies, bamboozle people with "authority" whether scholastic or in regard to stature. Lesson complete.
even shorter, If you want to control minds, you need to be able to lie, and manipulate emotion. People are simple, and extraordinarily few people actually care about the facts or truth of any situation moreso than validating their own bias/hearing what they want to hear.
The wicked runs when no one persueth him but the righteous is bold as a lion
I thought this was more of a lesson in how to spot manipulation, not master it. 🤷🏼♀️
@WildAlchemicalSpirit The only way to prove you know it is to do it. Dan suggests making propaganda at the end of the vid.
I'm surprised there was no mention of fear, specifically. The covid hysteria involved a whole lotta rhetoric and depended on the negative emotions of fear, shame, disgust, and guilt.
@@jamesdewane1642 fair enough
Happy winter solstice. Thanks for your 2023 videos, I look forward to your 2024 videos. Thanks for your time and effort, 🙏❤🐉🌛🌈🌍💥🌟🔥💥💥💥💥🌟
"Belief is the death of intelligence" Robert Anton Wilson....thank you for this refresh of college speech 😊
Thank you kind Sir.. this is the single greatest overview and priceless advice I've found along my journey ...especially the end because despite being kindhearted I had fallen into these trappings becoming isolated from friends and family i can finally see a summit of mountain ive climbed a hundred times over only to find myself starting up again from its base. I had failed in Ethos and Kairos ...Kairos seems most important like rhythm is to the dance
Very noteworthy video. Thank you, sir.
Ooo I just started watching and I'm already excited, this looks good ✨
It really is fantastic, I have notes almost 8 years old from the original lecture. This is one I feel everyone can benefit from. Enjoy ❤
Em.!. Top Draw Presentation. I Really Enjoyed it. Thanks.
Please like, share, and leave a comment to be a sweet-smelling incense unto the algogods.
I cried at your closing remarks. THIS is the gold for which I have been searching. Bless you my brother and I thank the great Creatorix.
Thank you so much for this superb lecture.
Wishing you light and and good health for the coming year.
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😂,hahahahaaaaa!, spot on!.
What is algogods?
Amazing "eye opener". Thank you!
Magnificiently masterful. Enlightening and enlivening. A rhetorical tour de force 💪🏻🙏🏼
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Thank you for making this video. 🙏
For anyone interested in strengthening their use of the arts of the trivium, I recommend Ward Farnsworth’s books. Also pick up some books on the informal logical fallacies. The Book of The Fallacy, by Madsen Pirie, is the one that springs to mind, but there are many other gems out there.
Study the arts of the trivium. Study them hard. But don’t forget to also study the arts of the quadrivium: arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
In this age, many people use deceptive techniques to trick you about scientific ideas. Keeping your mind exercised in the arts of the quadrivium will help protect you against such deception. Not to mention that the study of the quadrivium helps your mind ascend above the realm of becoming, toward the light of being. 😉
So greatful this coming across, finding out mine use of this, like a boss.😗
Most excellent and enjoyable presentation.
Really good info and delivery! Thanks!
Thus the importance of a classical education.
Well done; thank you!
The aether seems to always deliver me gems that my spirit desires and requires to soar higher and glow brighter 😇💛!I've been touching alot online about discernment lately for none of this delusion of falsehoods and lies is remotely new to me. It's very frustrating knowing where the world's headed and who's forcing it that way whilst most no one wants to hear a peep from you about it. However that's changing and unfortunately there's so many layers to the lie most of the "truthers" and those who speak on revealing lies in the name of good are still fools being mislead or worse in on the game too. We really all must take the time to learn about how we're being played around every corner we turn because it's already too late in many ways and they're will be great suffering and chaos in the near future. Yet we still have the power to prevail if we find common ground and unity in the things that truly matter❤
It's also mind blowing how grown ass people still think politics is real and through temper tantrums if you oppose their ridiculous programmed belief system that couldn't be further from reality! I won't to be mad at the culprits and no doubt I am righteously despised and opposed to them but it's hard for me to be mad. Especially since they've only had great success (to put it bluntly)due to peoples stupidity and ignorance! Yet I love the fools all the same because the only difference between them and us is we had the foresight to question deeper and learn from our mistakes through accountability and apply that to what we're sold as reality.We all go through the process of deception sadly but many prefer to be decieved rather than admit they may be wrong!It's never about right and wrong it was always about truth!
Happy New Year Dan! Thank you for spreading critical thinking from the past and present. May the future bless you and yours.
Thanks Bildgesmythe, Happy New Year to you too!
Excellent explanation! Thank you 💓
This might be a Masterpiece.
If I could give this more likes, it wouldn’t be enough. BEAUTIFUL presentation! 😮
Discernment advice so needed thankyou for such a lecture beautifull
Exquisitely Rendered
tickled this ear & tantalized this mind
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BRAVO
ABSOLUTELY fantastic and ordained. Never in all my research, study and investigation have I encountered such wisdom… excluding the scriptures of course. Perhaps one of, if not the, best I’ve heard. So much so that I had by intrigue to review it several times due to its depth of truth. So much so that I was ”led” to subscribe. Looking very much to divulging deeper into your content. Bless you.
I’m gonna need to sit down with this again and make some flash cards. Thanks for sharing
God bless these plateforms and the people who have a tribune to share incredible knowledge and create amazing videos to whomever wishes to watch.
What an interesting time we live in. So much knowledge available to the masses would have one make the argument that humans are thriving more than ever. Yet , the same plateforms are also used for the destruction of
human social
tissue .
Charles Dickens introduction still suits today and almost any time or period in history ;
It was the best of
times ,
it was the worst of times,
the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness....
Profound Excellence ... Gratitude and Appreciation 💫
Thank you for a very valuable Modern day, Language tool.
I appreciate this very much, thank you. 🙏🏼💙 i will be coming back to this many
thank you for this very well researched lecture on rhetoric.
There are some elements I instantly do not agree on, primarily the phrase "to fight propaganda, we must make propaganda". However, after defining the word, it becomes obvious that a lot of what we say is propaganda. The word itself is neutral. For example, if we propagate a real good cause, it is propaganda. When we propagate a malicious cause, it is propaganda.
In the end, there are a few instances where I would have used a different wording. It also has to do that English is not my primary language, so there are some aspects of misunderstanding.
Thanks a lot for this lecture and the accompanying imagery. This is so appealing for an artist. How these past artists captured these principles.
Entertaining and informative presentation. Thank you
What a great video. A lot of wisdom in here.
Could have heard this sooner in life but "better late than never" //
Excellent listening thanks
Seriously… what a valuable video. So practical, and clearly evaporating in our culture, except the obvious few who excel at it
Hello dear brother, through your valuable teaching, lighting the darkness of humanity pathway ✨️👋🏻♥️
Thank you! Definitely should be taught in all schools.
Government indoctrination camps are not there to make you think, its there to tell you what is your constructed reality will be according to them and you cannot question it because if you do, you are labeled right away, no conversation are made around the questions you ask, they will just want to " correct " you and make you think what they want.
Thank you for the quality lesson
Wow, I enjoyed this. Multiple times.
Thank you for this detailed and informative video 👑
What and excellent lecture, congratulations!
I just added this...amongst a few other gems from the waaaay back...to my watch later. And i shall watch now instead 😂🥳🙏
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.
17:07 ...when you can see the reflection of the cameraman in your helmet, whilst faking the moon landing...
Fantastic lecture!
This reminds me of how much I want to continue inviting a "liberal education" into my life. Clean up the foundations of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, and then working on all of the disciplines in an orderly, well-ratio'd fashion.
I'm just getting acquainted with your channel - excited to learn more and continue this education! :)
Bravo! I have a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing, and I’m going to share this with my students this fall.
I was really drawn in to it and listening closely. Then you hit me with the Eric Cartman “Put a dollar in the box” .😂 I’m going to use Verbal Toolkit for your expressed purpose as well as when writing my lyrics in the future. Thanks
Third time listening to this, won't be the last. I'm so happy to hear the part about puns. I've always loved puns and was told they were the lowest form of humor. I knew they were much more 😊
The presenter of this remarkable video has done a fantastic job in composing it.
It is extremely well written and has a message that is highly relevant in today’s world of half-truths and lies