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The problem is that there is A LOT of sensationalism behind all of this... It would be great if everyone could distinguish what is true and what is not, but the fact is that the vast majority of people are swayed by what is said. This occurs in all areas: in politics, journalism, religion... Someone says something is true, people don't investigate and accept it because the majority of others take it as true, so it must be true... It's this kind of attitude that needs to be rethought.

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Not everything you hear and read is true. What you read in newspapers and on the internet, hear on the radio, and see on TV is almost always conveying distorted information. From small to large, from DIY alternatives to big corporations, everyone tries to promote their own interests! And to get others to "buy into it," many resort to the misuse of rhetorical tactics.

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THE MISUSE OF RHETORIC

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Rhetoric is considered a science; when used properly, it can bring benefits to those who employ it. Rhetoric is the art of speaking well, of convincing people to accept an idea. There is nothing wrong with the use of rhetoric – it is what makes the difference between an interesting text and a boring one. Great leaders always employ a lot of rhetoric in their speeches. However, it is often severely misused. In these situations, the intent is to "deceive" people, making them get carried away by appearances through the use of fallacies (arguments that seem logically well-structured but are not true) and also through persuasion, which aims to capture the interlocutor's attention through impactful words, beautiful speech, or sometimes through energetic, aggressive speech – it's like a spectacle where the audience becomes absorbed in that trance. People are easily swayed by emotion, so they identify a lot and find such words and actions very appealing.

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Rhetoric is not necessarily interested in telling the truth: its real interest is to convince, sometimes at any cost. A good argument must have relationships of consequences between the statements; they must be articulated, they must "make sense." Rhetoric cannot ignore this rule if it wants to be used properly.

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Rhetoric often induces people to think in a certain way, being "taken in" through psychological tactics using embellished speeches. Many people imagine that someone speaks well when they speak beautifully, but it's not quite like that... The dogmatic person is the one most easily swayed by poorly used rhetoric because the dogmatic person has a naive belief in human ability, and thus is more easily led to believe in things that go blatantly against logic.

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