Al Gore may not have invented the way for human beings to connect with one another via the internet, but he is showing other politicians, and all of us, how to connect with something far more important . . . ourselves.
"An Inconvenient Truth" in 100 minutes, shows us something that pollsters, political strategists and fear had hidden from us all for eight years.
The real Al Gore.
The transformation of Al Gore . . . starting with his surprisingly relaxed concession speech in 2000 and more recently seen in his fire and brimstone speeches on the stump, his masterful appearance on Saturday Night Live and now, as the shockingly warm, intimate, passionate and soulful man and his slide show in this superb film . . . is a thrilling case study of what is so terribly wrong in politics and what can be so terribly right.
Every politician should see "An Inconvenient Truth", but not only for the scientific wisdom. They should see it because Al Gore, genuinely the professor here, shows us the true potential power of politics . . the simple yet awesome power of being one's self. That that power wasn't there in 2000 but is, so profoundly, in the movie, illustrates what is possibly the political teaching for our time. There are five things that great speakers and great political leaders do to engage and captivate audiences.
The first four, as important as they are, are dwarfed by the fifth. They 1) Understand and use the power of voice tone and body language, 2) Have a "Lasered, Compelling Message", 3) Communicate to the people, as FDR did, all the way back in 1933 with his "Fireside Chats", in a conversational manner, rather than as a performance or presentation, 4) Speak each of the "4 Languages" or "frequencies" of human communication so they can relate to every possible audience. But, throughout history, the one quality that has defined our great speakers and our great leaders is the one quality that has been literally sucked out of most current politicians. . . . "Authentic Passion".
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