Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Kairos in Love?

Something special happens when the timing is right.
From the artist wimpydrawings
http://wimpydrawings.com/post/13585537692/something-special-happens-when-the-timing-is

Kairos, Science, and the right moment.


Rhetoric is about making plans. Plans need a time frame. A plan is divided into individual time frames within a bigger time frame.
Putting that aside to open a short parenthesis, if we look at the creation of our planet through scientific eyes, it will become apparent that the Earth, out of all eight planets in our Solar system (sorry Pluto), has a perfect balance to sustain life. Let’s look at a simple example for the sake of time and remaining on topic: Mercury is too close to the Sun, and Neptune is too far from the Sun. And the Earth, well, Earth was in the right place, at the right time for life to flourish on its surface.
Coming back to rhetoric, writing, advertisement, speeches, the media, all those things need to occur at the right time, in the right place with the right message to create something, anything. That’s what Kairos is; the in-betweens of those individual time frames within a bigger time frame of making plans in rhetoric.
Kairos, more than Stasis, made me rethink my rhetorical analysis piece on Speed Levitch’s monologue in “Waking Life” and made me question whether the movie, with its messages on existentialism, consciousness, reality, and free will, occurred at a kairotic moment. Was the message heard? Was it heard by its intended audience? Who was the intended audience? Why was the film released in 2001? What seemed so right during that time to release such a film? Was the message the “right” message for those times? How about now?
If anything, Kairos, through all these questions I will have to answer through Stasis like research, refocused my rhetorical analysis. I don’t know, I think I see a thesis in the making.