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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Replying to @St_Rev
The amount of time and energy that elements on the left have spent arguing that slight marketing changes in their talking points was all that was needed to get Americans to support fully automated luxury gay space communism is baffling.
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Replying to @arnolfson
Part of the blame rests on George Lakoff, who's been dishonoring his own work in linguistics with this kind of snake oil. But it's also a major theme of humanities education since the 70s.
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Replying to @St_Rev
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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Replying to @arnolfson
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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Replying to @St_Rev @arnolfson
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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