People who don't understand anything but words, and who can't create anything but words, think all our problems can be solved with words. It diminishes me to give such broken creatures attention, but it's worth noting these patterns from time to time.https://twitter.com/crookedmedia/status/1160581837753921538 …
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Yeah, though I'd actually forgotten the title and author, Lakoff's book ("Whose Freedom?") was the first time* I'd seen the argument presented without any artifice, just an explicit notion that changing the frame changes the reality. *My mother's book club was reading it.
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Dude's deal since the 90s has been "the eeeevil conservatives are using mass mind control, so it's incumbent on us good progressives to use mass mind control". But he's not even good at the black arts.
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His strict father vs. 'nurturant parent' model is just embarassing.
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Just came across this, which absolutely roasts Lakoff (and articulates a lot of my own problems with him).https://newrepublic.com/article/77730/block-metaphor-steven-pinker-whose-freedom-george-lakoff …
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.