[YackerLose]

This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. It's the sort of stuff that works in the walled garden of academia but completely ignores the state of reality, where the average person is so bogged down by information overload that the gist is all they ever desire. I think a pie chart or an infographic is infinitely more powerful than a "Stage 4 argument".

[DiscourseFan]

That’s because the author, Peter Suber, doesn’t go beyond Nietzsche in his work (you can read his self summary elsewhere on the website). I’d suggest you read The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin[0], if you want an exposition on the power of the visual, and of shocks of experience, in the social and political world.

[0]https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf

[philsnow]

> This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic.

You can convince somebody with an unsound argument if you say it in a certain way, but it seems unethical to do so.

[avmich]

It's also may not work for somebody who has a habit of coming back to the arguments in his thoughts and finding questions - if he can't answer them well enough.