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Speech is the superior chad to writing

A well spoken phrase can wash away thousands of pages of written word

Why aren't you learning to speak effectively and persuasively in public /lit/?

> The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

>> No.13419093

>>13419083
>Speech is the superior chad to writing
If you're an ADHD retard, sure.

Anything worth a fuck is contained in the written word. Speech is forgotten as soon as its spoken, writing lasts forever.

>> No.13419107

>>13419093
Great speeches are captured by the hands of writers employed in the service of the speaker.

>> No.13419111

>>13419107
So you're saying writing is superior, ok.

Also, speeches are written before they're spoken.

>> No.13419113

Is that a good book? I've been getting into warfare recently, wanting to learn more.

>> No.13419120

>>13419113
Yeah, I think it's a published thesis, but it gives an insight into different types of speeches and examples of the rah-rah let's go killem speech.

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>>13419083
>Speech is superior to writing

>> No.13419135

>>13419113
What exactly are you trying to get into?

Start with these recommendations:

Non-fiction
The Peloponnesian War - Kagan
The influence of sea power upon history - Mahan

Fiction
Killer Angels - Shaara
The Hot Gates - Pressfield

>> No.13419142

>>13419135
I'm interested in the impact it has on people's lives. And death. "Death" and its meaning is what initially interested me, and naturally I became interested in war.

>> No.13419267

>>13419083
>keith Yellin
nice

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presence is the superior gigachad to writing

>> No.13420023

>>13419142
Death .... is a cultural concept. It is not exclusive to war. War is a struggle of wills, death is only one of the outcomes. You would be better off studying war as a contest, or politics by another means.

The Hagakure is a good start to understand how the Japanese warrior culture delt with death.

With The Old Breed - EB Sledge, is a modern book about war that deals a lot with death and men under fire.

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Grossman is interesting, a point of view opposite of dying, rather the cost of making other people die.

Norse, Greek, and Romans delt with death in varying ways. All of these ways, in the context of the warrior, and in the context of the individual cultures differ.

Death in modern war is random. The glory and the narrative is left to the survivors to tell.