The Operator's Manual

While reading this article I came to the conclusion that I am guilty of doing such things as stated in this article.  At times I thought I had enough commonsense to operate or use something that I've never used before, but After fumbling around and almost killing myself I would read the manual.  This is where I became confused because the instructions were vague and now I really had no idea what I was doing.  I would think that many of us go through this in our lifetime and wonder, who in the hell wrote these instructions?  

It seems that bad things happen to good people which this article points out.  I know that technology is changing even faster than before, but it doesn't seem like this should be an excuse for bad writing of instructions.  One of the things that appalled me even more is that after all of the legal proceedings they are using the same manual for teaching a class on how to use the studgun.  It's funny someone pinpointed out the problem, but no one ever went back to fix it?

The Myth

Well as I sat and read Vatz, I know that everything made sense to me at that time and place.  I only come to wonder if everything will make sense when I present the material to the class?  We are always surrounded by situations, but it is the rhetor that brings them out in detail.  We would really have no concern with these situations, but the rhetor puts emphasis on it or their point of view.  The question is, should we always pay attention to these situations I guess only if there is a strong meaning to ones self.   There are things that stuck in my mind as I read further into the article, one is how the media lets us look at the news such as "Shark Week" which usually happens right after someone is attacked.  This will get the general public in an uproar and scared of sharks, which we don't take into consideration that we would have a better chance at winning the lottery than there is getting attacked by a shark.  My favorite was what really got this war started, you remember "Weapons of Mass Destruction"  anything to get the public confused.  6 years and nothing found yet!

Kairos

When I was reading this I was really thinking about what has been talked about in the class in  the past few weeks.  About how scientists prove something and how others will disprove the others claim.  We can also look at how Kairos is translated "the right time" and how it was the right time for DNA.  I would guess that many of these "right times" have come and gone with different discovers, but who is to say what is right and what is wrong? When it comes to science I can be a sceptic just because how these scientist can use rhetoric to persuade.  I guess that I have to be the judge of that, but with DNA it's hard for me to swallow this claim sometimes.  Just look at fingerprinting and how this claim has changed over time.  Not everything is what it may seem, but with some fancy wording some can make anyone a believer.