#public discourse

• Apologia — A passionate eulogy, a written discourse, or a systematic oral defense aimed at justifying, vindicating, or rehabilitating a highly contested person, work, doctrine, or cause in the public sphere. In classical culture, the term refers directly to Socratic and Platonic writings designed to refute legal indictments, later evolving into a discursive tool for ideological justification.
• Programmatic apologia — The act of apologizing and its result; the process of drafting a speech or text in the style of an apologia through which a cause, system, or person is systematically praised, justified, and defended. It represents the transformation of an analysis or exposition into a biased plea, dominated by laudatory intentions to the detriment of critical analysis.
• To set oneself up — To self-proclaim, institute, or transform oneself, on one's own account and without official legal or moral justification, into a controlling authority, arbitrator, judge, or defender of a cause before public opinion.
• Self-proclamation — The act of setting oneself up as an authority and its result; the public act or intention by which an individual or a group unauthorizedly and abusively assumes a certain leadership role, moral authority, arbitrator, or defender of a cause, without official legitimation.