Phil Collins says that great speeches need a big event or a rallying cause and there are just less of them than there were in the past. For Collins, great speeches need three key ingredients: a serious argument which leaves the audience thinking something new or resolved to act; great delivery that stirs the emotions as well as appealing to reason; and a sense of occasion.
Collins points out Martin Luther King could get away with elevated language because his cause was a noble one. You can't really do that when you are talking about the reform of local government. It just isn't as big an affront to justice. So, there is a very good reason we have fewer remarkable speeches which is that we don't need them as much as we did.
Collins also justifies the use of sound bites, although he says he always worked by building a solid argument first and then trying to distil the best possible phrase out of the argument rather than the other way around. He says that not only are soundbites vital in a world where a 24/7 media edits chunks of speeches down to one phrase, but all the great writers are full of them. We should guard against the derogatory association of the word soundbite. All we mean, really, is a pithy way of capturing the essence of the point. To be or not to be – that really was the question. It was a soundbite too.
The emphasis on soundbites is likely to increase. The endless fragmentation that results from the coverage of modern media is the main reason that the soundbite has become such a ubiquitous part of political discourse. Your words are going to be chopped into pieces in any case so you might as well offer up the encapsulation you think is the best one.
Nevertheless, a good peech can make all the difference. David Cameron owes his leadership of the Conservatives to two speeches – one he gave which was well received and one given by his rival David Davis which bombed. It is hard to imagine Barack Obama would have become President without his oratory powers.
The audience is clearly vital for any speech writer and Collins says people's attention spans have declined, as has the breadth of their vocabulary and range of reference. Mass democracy means that references to high culture divide an audience where they would once have united it. There are also more political speeches than there used to be.
Gladstone and Disraeli used to speak rarely every year. Each speech was an epic, months in the preparation, but they would not be doing speeches three times a week, as many politicians are now. In the process, we have devalued the currency a little. The effective speech, though, remains what it has always been – a mixture of reasoned argument and emotional passion. Churchill's use of rhetoric has the style of a music-hall performer, in contrast to today's more colloquial, television-orientated, and soundbiteish delivery.
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Venitism is a new libertarian paradigm which integrates politics, economics, ethics, and spirituality. Venitists follow the Venitis Laws:
Venitis Law of Black Hole: Taxation is armed robbery that feeds the black hole of political corruption; it's the perfect index of corruption and tyranny. Only evil governments tax citizens and companies.
Venitis Law of Constitution: The only purpose of a constitution is to protect citizens from government abuse. Reform treaties of a confederation not voted by the citizens are null and void.
Venitis Law of Democracy: Every democracy is eventually hijacked by rabblerousers, pullpeddlers, clans of kleptocrats, bumptious bugaboos, busybodies, butterbabies, nabobs of nepotism, cranks of cronyism, pusillanimous pussyfooters, riffraffs of rascals, socialist sophists, and Machiavellian mafiosi. Democracy tends to kleptocracy. Anarchy should replace democracy.
Venitis Law of Depression: Only governments can cause economic depressions and funny money. Lower tax rates, a reduction in the burden of government, and elimination of kleptocracy and VAT are the only way to boost growth.
Venitis Law of Education: There is no direct relationship between education and schooling. You might be schooled but uneducated, and you might be educated but unschooled. Schools are concentration camps for the drones of society. Unschooling is much better than schooling. Internet is the best source of knowledge and information, replacing schools, libraries, media, parliaments, and postoffice.
Venitis Law of Environment: The best way to save the environment is vasectomy. Deadly viruses are Gaia's antibiotics against the cancer of overpopulation.
Venitis Law of Equality: Death is the only equalizer. Egalitarianism brings death to society, transforming citizens to zombies.
Venitis Law of Evolution: The ultimate phase of human evolution is the complete domination of soul.
Venitis Law of Faith: Faith is retarded thinking that keeps you away from God. You have to become faithless, in order to start your journey to God! You have to discover God your own way without intermediaries. God's truth should replace faith.
Venitis Law of Government: The only purpose of government is to protect citizens from criminals. Public services, central banks, and fiat money should be abolished.
Venitis Law of Heroism: Entrepreneurs, innovators, anarchists, and heretics are the real heroes.
Venitis Law of Insurance: Citizens with proper individual retirement accounts and health savings accounts should be allowed to opt out of State Insurance.
Venitis Law of Intervention: Any government intervention deteriorates an existing trend. Laissez-faire is the only progressive policy.
Venitis Law of Legislature: Parliaments should be abolished, because they continuously create laws that enslave citizens, constrain economic activity, loot producers, reward drones, and encourage political corruption.
Venitis Law of Misery: Throwing money to misery brings more misery. Fighting wild leverage with more leverage is homeopathic repression of reality. A deluge of fiat money brings financial plague and haemorrhage of economy. Real money is tied up to precious metals and strategic metals.
Venitis Law of Patriotism: Patriotism is addiction to local hysteria.
Venitis law of Privacy. Nobody, including your government, has the right to break into your home, your land, your accounts, your computer, your files, and your secrets. You have the natural right to protect your privacy from intruders. Molon Labe!
Venitis Law of Property: Governments should not own or regulate any property, including electromagnetic waves. The first individual who improves or cultivates any unclaimed property is entitled to that property. Governments cannot own, allocate, regulate, or manipulate frequency fields and media. Eminent domain is null and
void.
Venitis Law of Religion: Religion is spiritual slavery. Church is the business of religion. Religious monopoly turns bishops to ayatollahs, and churches to Sodom and Gomor. Spirituality and metaphysics should replace religion.
Venitis Law of Selfownership: You own your body and your soul, and nobody should dictate what you take in and what you take out. Speech, education, heresy, habeas corpus, military service, mating, healthcare, abortion, cloning, drugs, guns, and euthanasia should be personal choices.
Venitis Law of Style: Your soul needs to resonate with mighty words and unique acts that express your style and destiny. Your government cannot dictate your language, your words, and your culture. Resonate now and sing your song!
Venitis Law of System: The most efficient political system is anarchy, where everything is private, there are no taxes at all, there is no government, and there is no parliament.
Venitis Square Law: Political corruption is proportional to the square of the size of the government.
Venitis Tax Law: Taxes destroy the economy. Raising tax rates is masochism. Smart stimulus is to cut tax rates. Stupidus stimulus is to increase spending, which stimulates the cancer of statism!
CHAIN REACTION OF PEOPLE
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
Give my ideas to all your friends
So they can tell all their friends
Use your phones, nets, and pens
Chain reaction without ends.
Talk to all influential people
For the tipping not to cripple
Use the media for ripples
Fireflies netting people.
I can speak if you want so
I can stir them with a show
Put them all on their toes
Self-sustain in a flow.
RESONANCE
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
You are indeed a resonance
To certain ding a dong
Your sounds bring an assonance
Resonate now and sing your song.
You own your body and you soul
So you could grow strong
In this world you have a role
Resonate now and sing your song.
Your molecules are full of strings
Waiting for very very long
To lift the people on wings
Resonate now and sing your song.
Express your style and destiny
That couldn't go wrong
Your words reveal your majesty
Resonate now and sing your song.
CROSSROADS OF MY LIFE
By Basil Venitis
venitis@gmail.com
http://venitism.blogspot.com
Crossroads of my life
Where do you lead me?
Would I be free?
Where should I drive?
Perturbing me as snowball,
In fate's crucial nodes,
Knocking me as football,
To follow freedom roads.
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