What's a debate?
I wrote my column this week on the ongoing assault on American intellectuality, the diminishing of diverse thoughts and the marginalization of critical thinking.
Debates are supposed to be the culmination of intellectuality, where great thinkers and great ideas clash through dialogue in the search for truth (i.e. Plato's Dialogues). We should expect our Presidential Debates to be just that, a tremendous give and take where policies and ideas battle in an attempt to discover what's best for our country.
Yet, it's quite clear that nothing has developed out of this election's debates. Each candidate merely harped upon the same talking points and each successive debate merely became a sickening repeat of the last. No development of ideas, just repetition of talking-points.
Just watch this clip, synching the debates together. Did we get anywhere?
Debates are supposed to be the culmination of intellectuality, where great thinkers and great ideas clash through dialogue in the search for truth (i.e. Plato's Dialogues). We should expect our Presidential Debates to be just that, a tremendous give and take where policies and ideas battle in an attempt to discover what's best for our country.
Yet, it's quite clear that nothing has developed out of this election's debates. Each candidate merely harped upon the same talking points and each successive debate merely became a sickening repeat of the last. No development of ideas, just repetition of talking-points.
Just watch this clip, synching the debates together. Did we get anywhere?
posted by Adam McGillen at
8:54 AM
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