Quote: "A people is a group of human beings united
together by history, language, culture, or some combination therein—a community joined in
union for a common purpose: the survival
and flourishing of the people itself."
Question: Lyons seems to propose in his piece that rhetoric creates reality; he says that power is something that must be asserted by a people and then recognized. Is this kind of asserted power realistic? Is it possible for a united disempowered people to (re)obtain power through rhetoric?
I think rhetoric is a power that would be very helpful to a disembodied people. Although rhetoric can be seen to have negative connotations, it is mostly here to help keep people open-minded and continue to communicate through discourse; something that would be very helpful to a group of people that are not unified. It would appear that rhetoric would be a power that should be asserted but not aggressively.
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