This reminds me of something I heard someone say recently—that much of the content of speech is actually sleight-of-hand. It isn’t there to inform us, but to distract us into evaluating and agreeing with its denotation while it slips in its connotation unnoticed.
This reminds me of something I heard someone say recently—that much of the content of speech is actually sleight-of-hand. It isn’t there to inform us, but to distract us into evaluating and agreeing with its denotation while it slips in its connotation unnoticed.