I wonder what an argument between two people that have already read Jay Heinrichs's book, Thank You for Arguing, is like. In the first two chapters, this guy promises so much! "After it awakens you to the argument all around, the world will never seem the same." (6) However, I need to accept that I am a little scared. What if I don't learn enough skills? What if this book might just mess up with my mind? This book seems as something very helpful. I hope it gives me superpowers or something that helps me because "rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic." (4)
One thing I had never thought about before was how many situations in our daily life include rhetoric. For example, as Heinrich talked about his type of normal day, I was amazed by how many things included rhetoric: the smoke detector, the cat, the wristwatch,etc. (7) I like what the author says about how "we live in a tangled, dark (I almost added “moist”) world of persuasion." (8)
Another thing that came to my mind while I read some of the examples was the many ads I come up with every day that have to do with fitness, beauty, and health. I have come to see that the products that have the best or even the most propaganda are the ones who sell the most. A while ago, I bought a lip balm called Baby Lips because I saw it in every magazine. I thought it was so good but it was only a matter of buying the product to find out that I had been persuaded by great advertising and pictures of lips that probably didn't even use Baby Lips. I guess persuasion is, after all, everything.
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