DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Steve Sailer. I have always been underwhelmed by “competitive” debating, since I never found any of the presentations persuasive, and if debate isn’t meant to persuade it’s just verbal wankery. Apparently I’m not alone in my discontent.

Obviously, this emphasis on speed isn’t good training for much of anything in the real world, where trying to talk faster than the other guy is more likely to get you a punch on the nose than the acclaim of your fellow men. When FDR, for example, was in debate at Groton in the 1890s, they taught him to try to persuade his audience, not overwhelm them.

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