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(Reblogged from consillyence)
His happiness, I think, was his rhetorical secret weapon. One doesn’t suspect a contented person of currying favor, seeking validation, or compensating for some unmet need. He makes it easy to believe in his good faith, and that makes him hard to dismiss.
Will Wilkinson on Milton Friedman’s rhetorical power. (via consillyence)
That’s a great observation, and one that I don’t recall reading in situ back when Will blogged it. Thanks, Kyle!
If contentedness can be a rhetorical secret weapon, I am at least part of the way to having powers of mass mind control.
