Rhetorical Situation Of Goodman

The rhetorical situation of the article revolves around Goodmans believe that present day people have become obsessively attached to their mobile devices and how this will drastically harm our future because of how accustomed we have gotten with simplicity, and our obsession is detaining us from becoming the next big thinker. Goodman supports his claim with pathos, "How, in this age of relentless electronic distraction, will our civilization sustain the sense of solitude that is necessary to produce the next Brontë or Bellow, the next Augustine or Alighieri....". However, Goodman should have recognized that we are revolutionizing and will never become like his college years. If we go back in history, we used to use the Pony Express to deliver