Raising your voice does not make your argument truer
Isn’t it interesting how when two or more people have a disagreement, at some point, the volume goes up? As if by speaking louder, their believe their arguments become truer or more signifiant?
Here is France, the candidates for the next presidential elections are on the beat.
We see them on the evening news where they each get a chance to puff their chest and do their show. They make their (mostly untenable) promises and get challenged by the journalists.
There are two things I find interesting in these interactions (the content is not one of them by the way):
1/ Each candidate’s posture and how they position themselves. They are all more or less looking for the same result: prove they have what it takes to be the next Prez.
2/ How the journalists seek to weaken the candidates, mostly by asking questions and then not letting them actually answer those questions.
They just pile on more questions and reactions to the partial answer to the previous question. And so the volume goes up, everyone is confused about which question the candidate is answering. We, the spectators, of course end up being the most confused.
I think the winning strategy would be for the candidate to simply pause before answering.
