"Rhetoric = ruling the world. Perceptions."
This is my first epiphany of the new school year! It happened in Physics for Future Presidents, where I am usually extremely attentive in class, but lightbulbs have their way of lighting up whenever they please. I must have been pondering minoring in Rhetoric, and I was thinking of the skills that I could possess by studying the subject more. The way I understand it, rhetoric gives one the ability to persuade an audience, or change people's perceptions. Rhetoric also teaches the skill of knowing when someone else is using a tool of persuasion. I was thinking about this, and then coupling it with the idea that all we "know" of the world is just known through our perceptions, and we as a human race have created things to identify and things to be real. Since our world's entire reality is all just a bunch of perceptions, learning rhetoric may be my key to ruling the world! (In a completely non-dominant way, of course.)
I think this epiphany came about because of Physics for Future Presidents's first class, where my professor first made the enormous disclaimer that physics is just another way of looking at the world. Reality is what I make it, nobody can tell me otherwise.
I think this epiphany came about because of Physics for Future Presidents's first class, where my professor first made the enormous disclaimer that physics is just another way of looking at the world. Reality is what I make it, nobody can tell me otherwise.
