“We must use our ears for ourselves and not give anyone else an earful.” Splendidly well put!
I agree absolutely with the drift of your argument Ant. But sadly, in today’s political discourse, Epictetus seems to have been forgotten and it’s more like two tongues and half an ear. Politicians seem to have been trained to talk twenty to the dozen and leave not the hint of a gap between their words in case a discomfiting question might be slipped in by their interlocutor. It probably all goes back to the need to defend against the attack dogs like Paxman. We should be careful what we wish for.
“We must use our ears for ourselves and not give anyone else an earful.” Splendidly well put!
I agree absolutely with the drift of your argument Ant. But sadly, in today’s political discourse, Epictetus seems to have been forgotten and it’s more like two tongues and half an ear. Politicians seem to have been trained to talk twenty to the dozen and leave not the hint of a gap between their words in case a discomfiting question might be slipped in by their interlocutor. It probably all goes back to the need to defend against the attack dogs like Paxman. We should be careful what we wish for.