Comments on: Background http://www.foggybottomline.com/?p=13 Politics, Economics, and Other Silly Things Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:41:22 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard http://www.foggybottomline.com/?p=13&cpage=1#comment-65 Richard Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:47:48 +0000 http://www.foggybottomline.com/?p=13#comment-65 I think I understand the "bottom line up front" idea and have always wondered if the Truth might be discovered in this approach. I sat through Philosophy 101 in college and many similar classes where jargon so clouded the rhetoric that defining terms took up the time that might have been used for discovery. What if we all spoke like Mark Twain? Is there genius in plain talk? If we all spoke plainly, might the grand result of all this talk be the Truth, or at least human truth? I would settle for a moment of clarity. If you believe in collective action, what collection action do you seek and why? I think I understand the “bottom line up front” idea and have always wondered if the Truth might be discovered in this approach.

I sat through Philosophy 101 in college and many similar classes where jargon so clouded the rhetoric that defining terms took up the time that might have been used for discovery.

What if we all spoke like Mark Twain? Is there genius in plain talk? If we all spoke plainly, might the grand result of all this talk be the Truth, or at least human truth? I would settle for a moment of clarity.

If you believe in collective action, what collection action do you seek and why?

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