Politics in the era of tweets. Alexander Genis - about new literacy
The first instrument of democracy was born in the same place as it, in Athens. When the people went to the people, it turned out that talking to him is a separate profession: a rhetoric requiring talent, training and a loud voice, because only 10 percent of the assemblies really heard the speaker. Even then, not everyone liked the influence of experienced speakers that could prove one thing, and then convince the opposite. Socrates fought with sophists, but did not succeed.