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“I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

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I like this topic. :)

Can I add to the conversation?

One of the things I teach is rhetoric, or the art of persuasion, relative to technical and professional communication.

I teach my students about the rhetorical elements: logos, ethos, pathos, kairos, and telos.

In doing so, my students learn that a piece of communication isn't necessarily the whole truth, or even ethical, because it's been stated "objectively."

Writers and speakers can use these elements to convince their audience of what is or what is not truth.

Some would argue for "Positivism," a perspective of communication that states science and rhetoric must be mutually exclusive, but that's simply not possible because you cannot communicate without using at least one element of rhetoric.

And science, at its very core, is rhetorical. Science seeks to prove; to prove is to persuade. Science is fundamentally rhetorical.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "Objective" as "expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations."

Humans are incapable of objectivity in its absolute sense because all forms of communication, without exception, include rhetoric; because we are fundamentally social creatures with emotions; and because each human individual will interpret something in their own way due to their life experiences.

If science is fundamentally rhetorical, all communication includes rhetorical elements, and we all interpret things on an individual basis, then I would argue that "objective" or "subjective" are just two different perspectives from which to view communication; I would argue that - technically speaking - everything is subjective.

The truth is the truth, it doesn't matter who is saying it.

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“Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness — these are precisely the qualities that make us civilised. Barbarians don’t travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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sunrise | source

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“The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.”

— Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

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“How long can anyone bear to live with someone whose mind wanders off to a place where their love no longer exists?”

— Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside

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Bazen öylece rüzgarın ahengine dalar insan. silkeleyip dururken yemyeşil çimenleri..

A momentary breeze..

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Derry Girls (2018-2022) Season 2 | Episode 3

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Now, when will we get one for writers?

Good.

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“How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.”

— Lauren Groff, Arcadia

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Let there be light

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by Willie Huang

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I adore Firefly.

FIREFLY (2002) || 1.02 “The Train Job”

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And, I also love them b/c I’m a public librarian.