Any day of the week you can see them - college students slowly filling a lecture hall before the beginning of class.  In this case, the class is Public Speaking.  But what the content of the lecture imparts on the students is the necessary skillset to make speech.  This includes elements we all know well: eye-contact, pleasant vocal timbre, pace, rhythm, maintaining attention, etc.  Substance, of course, rounds off the bottom of the list.  Speech is not about substance, but that in itself doesn’t make it inherently dangerous.  What does is its use as a mechanism to manipulate an entire economy of political souls.  This mechanism, this exact controlling function, is Speech-Politik. (more…)