Zooze the Horse roams around the pasture near Lamar State College. Zooze thinks about problems in academia. Zhe wants proffies to submit posts (blog posts, not fence posts).
Sunday, March 17, 2019
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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
Sadly, there seems to be little room for nuance in discourse today. Or civility or respect for the viewpoints of others... And my heavens, the level of discourse is often appalling.
Quite a nuanced thought in our present climate.
ReplyDeleteI spent quite a bit of yesterday watching Kurt Vonnegut on youtube. Current levels of discourse are not quite the same, are they?
Sadly, there seems to be little room for nuance in discourse today. Or civility or respect for the viewpoints of others... And my heavens, the level of discourse is often appalling.
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