Faking sincerity isn’t easy. The person who seems like he’s putting effort into proving that he has a certain belief looks different than the person who isn’t out to prove that he’s holding the belief and simply believes.
Presenting a belief as an unspoken assumption in a very light way is something that usually happens with a true believer but not with someone who acts like he believes.
You can tell a joke in a way that the person who listens laughs for a few seconds. You can also tell it in a way that the person suddenly get’s a realization when he comes home after a few hours. The subtlety that you need for the brain spending hours processing the joke is a hard skill.
It’s not impossible to learn. I don’t know excatly what Obama does to get the kind of emotional effects in his audience he does. That’s more than just being reasonably competent at acting. On the other hand not every politician is at that rhetorical level.
Faking sincerity isn’t easy. The person who seems like he’s putting effort into proving that he has a certain belief looks different than the person who isn’t out to prove that he’s holding the belief and simply believes.
Presenting a belief as an unspoken assumption in a very light way is something that usually happens with a true believer but not with someone who acts like he believes.
You can tell a joke in a way that the person who listens laughs for a few seconds. You can also tell it in a way that the person suddenly get’s a realization when he comes home after a few hours. The subtlety that you need for the brain spending hours processing the joke is a hard skill.
It’s not impossible to learn. I don’t know excatly what Obama does to get the kind of emotional effects in his audience he does. That’s more than just being reasonably competent at acting. On the other hand not every politician is at that rhetorical level.