George Lakoff on Freedom

[humanbeing524]

Liberal and progressives are thinkers in the mode of the "age of enlightenment" and the Renaissance humanists. Questioning, exploring, discovering.

Conservatives keep things are they are - for themselves and for good or ill - and condemn or are afraid of everyone not like them (ie Male, white, middle-aged, American, mid-west, Christian, ...)

[humanbeing524]

@alfrunk to your first RHETORICAL question - conservatives have the money and know mind control techniques the best since they have all these conservative so-called "think" tanks at their disposal. "There are twice as many right-wing think tanks as progressive ones, and the conservative ones generally have more money." PRWatch - see The Heritage Foundation, Cato, etc.

[bellatruth]

He certainly does nothing to shatter the false left/right paradigm. Both neocons and socialists are the tools tyrants use to enslave everyone's mind, and then their bodies.

[maxtres]

Man, i dig George Lakoff, his discussion of "Strict Father Family" applies to every conservative in which shapes how society should be governed as. Talk about 1984, and i thought Big Brother wasn't real...but George Lakoff proves the concept of "Newspeak," "Doublespeak" and not to mention "Thoughcrime" as George Orwell once predicted. Dang, this guy is good!

[Alfrunk]

I thought conservatives were idiotic, uneducated cavemen. If that's so, how have they used language for their purposes, better than the liberals?

[tangospring]

1. you were wrong

2. they have employed PR firms

[Alfrunk]

I'm glad democrats are genuinely smart and don't have PR consultants.

[tangospring]

that makes two of us

[Alfrunk]

You really are delusional. Sad.

[tangospring]

obviously, the irony doubled is beyond jolly.

that makes one of us commiserating, and yet, inevitably, parting the ways.

[Alfrunk]

You use your mouth prettier than a 2$ whore.

[tangospring]

thanks

[tangospring]

ah, the things you can learn from PR... priceless.

[bellatruth]

hahahhahaha! Well said.

[HatTricksInc]

It's smart to employ others that are experts at something to help you achieve your ends. Even "genuinely smart."

Depending on yourself alone to be the best at doing everything involved in achieving your goals is arguable not as smart as surrounding yourself with people who are good at different aspects of things, even outsourcing to other organizations including PR firms.

[Alfrunk]

Yeah I'm sure Lincoln really needed a pr firm. Disgusting idiot.

[MarmaladeINFP]

@Alfrunk It's not just use of language. It's also psychological differences in how they think and how they organize. Liberals by nature are less talented at groupthink.