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Created: April 4, 2003
Latest Update: April 4, 2003
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On the Rhetoric of Support for Troops, for the War

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, April 2003.
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On the rhetoric of Reaction

The stress is mounting. The war tears at each of us in different ways, and nerves are frayed. When we are stressed and our minds rebel at trying to figure out these issues that no one really has any answers to, we often start to shout rhetoric at one another.

peace marches - support for the troops - the need to enforce justice - the need to control others to make them behave as we think they should - the need to keep our world predictable and maintain some kind of social order, something we can count on

ascribed and achieved status - what's at stake when we can't count on anything.
how true is this anyway? the management myth - if you work very hard you'll get promoted.

a changin infrastructure means new ways of perceiving succes, promotion, recognition - that makes those who have already learned to play the game have a stake in not letting the game change.
students who insist on writing term papers whether I want them or not.