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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Stephen Bannon's Speech

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Stephen Bannon’s speech also seemed to be stemmed in the fear of change. He believes that the cultural globalization of the world return to the same leadership as the end of the Victorian era. At this time, the socioeconomic rules of the Church of England and the Catholic Church set the world standard for trade, globalization, and technology transfer. With that came the cultural influences of the Christian Faith spreading across the world. Bannon claims that ever since that has changed, the world has become a barbaric place. Stating that, “We’re children of Barbarity. This will be looked at almost as the new dark age.” Similar to the clergy, Bannon uses historical events such as World War II and interprets the fighting between countries as the fight between the Judeo-Christian West and atheists. Bannon declares Judeo-Christian …show more content…

It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether it’s the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East.” (pg.2)
Now although some of his rhetoric may seem outlandish and outdated, Bannon’s fear of the current state of modern global economics holds some merit. He fears that the Ayn Rand (also know as the Objectivist School of Libertarian Capitalism) form of capitalism is making humans into commodities. Essentially he is talking about neo-liberalism and the global commodity chain as the most volatile form of capitalism. But, his fear of the global commodity chain isn’t purely driven by the fear that people are becoming commodities, it is driven through the fact that modern socioeconomics

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