It might, Shaffer suggests, be part of our most corrupt rhetoric of self-justification.
The problem is that the new rhetoric of self-sufficiency coincides with a growing distrust of markets and trade.
Because Tyson's prefight rhetoric of self-pity and hatred has been so bileful, Gray's presence is important.
He initially believed the rhetoric of self-sacrifice in a noble cause, but as the war dragged on he became disillusioned with patriotic clichés.
These days, the state is run by officials whose rhetoric of self-congratulatory self-reliance says, hey, you're on your own.
Rappers, whose job has always been to be immodest, also escalated their rhetoric of self-adoration; recently Jay-Z, the year's dominant rapper, renamed himself Jay-hova.
Its idea that we might live more thoughtfully is filtered, in an unsettling way, through the commercial rhetoric of self-help, and extended through the mercantile logic of a growing lifestyle brand.
But when she surprise-released Lemonade, an hour-long film presentation of her sixth studio album, there was suddenly a radical new dimension to this rhetoric of self-affirmation.
In "The Wilsonian Moment" (2007), Erez Manela argues that Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination contributed to a wave of popular protests in the Middle East and Asia, including a revolution in Egypt in 1919; made the nation-state the goal of stateless societies; and lies behind the emergence and force of anticolonial nationalism during the past century.
However, the marketing of digital technologies has been commonly linked with a rhetoric of self-empowerment and utopian social development.
It documents addictive and compulsive behavior, yet masks this behavior in the rhetoric of self-control and willpower ("Your stomach isn't grumbling, it's applauding").
