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DaveT

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7. While I agree about how Palin works a GOP crowd,
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 02:52 PM
Jan 2016

and the argument fits perfectly with the analysis of communication made by own intellectual hero, Marshall McLuhan, I think she was tipsy in the Trump endorsement speech.

Not a contradiction, really.


The world is transitioning from the Age of Print to the current world of digital communication, and the patience required to make or follow a logical argument is dying. What strikes me most about Trump's rhetoric is not its odious and bigoted content, but its rambling incoherence.

I don't think we are that far down the rabbit hole yet, but before too many more elections, we will probably elect Zaphod Beeblebrox as President of the Galaxy..

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