Government by tweet is working fine for Trump; and for Cleon:If Aristophanes didn't cover me so much in his terrible plays, his ratings would totally tank. He is so average in so many ways! And that actress, overrated, big time.
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What would it have been like if the Athenians tweeted? Here is Pericles’ tweet, sent just after delivering the Funeral Oration: Everyone loved my speech: Those guys were losers but at least they didn’t get captured, like some cowards we know. So I was eloquent, very eloquent. Tomorrow: Cleon gets into the act. Why did Athenian democracy fail so totally and miserably? We are at last able to answer that question: It was their inability of its leaders to speak in 140 character units. Behind that was the disastrous failure of an education system based on the performance and interpretation of irrelevant texts. Between now and Inauguration Day http://www.wrobertconnor.com/blog will showing what Athens could have been like it had had a government by tweet, instead of arguing and writing in long winded, complicated ways. Pericles Tweet I: Great choice for Funeral Oration speaker. My ratings will beat all the competition, big time. Tomorrow: Pericles tweet his Funeral Oration! . |
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