Years ago I discovered a public speech writer at Harvard called Donovan Livingston
At the time I thought he was a profound thinker with a lot of good ideas that could shape and map the trajectory of your social and religious experience
Now 4 years later I’ve revisited his lift off speech and realized a few failures in his rhetoric
One was that it did not include real life examples of how his ideas worked
Another was that his use of allegory was too simplistic
And thirdly his idealism seemed dishonest
lastly his benefits seemed to lack social profit and to be arbitrarily determined by social and biological inheritance and not by negotiable or changeable factors in his respective world
lastly that the pattern of knowledge transmission in his figurative speech seemed to be an exclusive top down processing engagement from mentor to mentee where the mentee does not reciprocate by also teaching the mentor
And the lack of real life contexts where his idealism could be explosive
Also the failure to prove his arguments in his speech
It seemed to lack authenticity
What I have concluded from the part where Jesus says to pray that earth will be like heaven
Is that you make the hypothetical dream the material and physical reality and you make the spiritual dream the biological truth
Make what is visionary real
So I’ve become more practical over the years
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