Plato said the truth should be spoken plainly. It needs no fancying up or aggrandizing because it conveys on its own the weight and severity of the content. The truth, in other words, speaks for itself.
But would we recognize the truth when we saw it? Appreciate it if we heard it?
The art form of rhetorical speech has been perfected to such a degree by advertisers, and filmmakers, and E!, that society has been reduced to children staring at the cool kid on the first day of school, waiting for him to open his mouth and impart holy doctrines. At first, perhaps when we are less mature, we believe everything