In Class: Rhetorical Thinking

I accidentally read this last unit which I was kind of glad I did because it had a short piece on Victoria's Secret and Bob Dylan that I thought was very relevant to what I was saying Victoria's Secret was saying. I think rhetorical thinking looks at ideas kind of the way I always look at things. Instead of just going along with what something is clearly stating you beyond that and ask your self "what are they REALLY saying here." If we never really rhetorically think about anything we would all morph into somewhat the same person, ok well not that extreme but pretty close. Advertisement agencies would love this because instead of us being thrown off but say the picture with the little girl smoking a cigarette we would know automatically what they wanted us to see, which I'm personally still a little thrown off by it. Rhetorical thinking is a lot simpler than what most people think it is. We are born to question most things, or at least hopefully you were, other wise we would believe everything we saw. They could put a pic of an allen sitting in a classroom and we would believe it....seriously!