Greek oration was all about weaponized attention grabbing and getting people to join your school not those other terrible terrible oh so bad schools.

We’ve had weaponized attention grabbing as long as wemve had humans I bet.

It was an art of oration.

Not a science driven exploitation of basic human instincts.

They didn't have a focus groups A-B testing and neurological studies back then.

That's a bit like saying that the impact on climate change back 1000 years ago and now is the same, as in both cases we are releasing carbon into atmosphere.

It was the closest they had to a science, and it was aimed at manipulating the listener in a predetermined way.

The fact that it was mostly applied at civil politics tells more about their society than about the tool...

Writing is a technology. It's disputable if any technology is inherently neutral or not:

“One of the most dangerous things you can believe in this world is that technology is neutral.”

from https://thecompassmagazine.com/blog/is-technology-morally-ne...