Linguist George Lakoff on Rationality and Politics
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@toosinbeymen lakoff's book is amazing. couldn't put it down. now i know why it is so easy to get conservatives to vote against their own interests. they do it because it fits their morality -- so it's to actually the MORAL thing to do. to beat them libs have to find liberal arguments that fit conservative morality. it's the only thing that will work.
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this might be the worst subtitling ever
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Do I hear TYT think tank? Why not?
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This helped me out for my English essay!
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Just read his Philosophy in the Flesh. Blew my mind!!! Although, I'll admit alot of it was over my head. I'm no scientist nor an above average student (I think), but I get the picture and it's and impressive picture.
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I studied a portion of this book in political science class and it makes perfect sense. It explains many ideals that some hold such as why republicans are anti abortion yet support the death penalty- two seemingly conflicting positions
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i always scrutinize anything in social science (linguistics), sometimes its seems there isnt much science in it
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@jorgedug Chomsky's linguistic works may not affect the world of politics, because it's a work of linguistics field. His theories actually influence a lot in social reality, in an linguistic way but not in political way. Just because something isn't politically influential, it doesn't mean it does not affect social reality.
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That professor guy didn't convince me. We may analyze the world through metaphorical thought, but that's not to say that this is *reason*. Reason is the act of questioning a proposition, which means you have to undermine your own confidence in these 'frames'. But then again maybe this is only possible by using a separate which is not consistent with the first.
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This may be the most interesting and compelling interview I've ever seen. Prof Lakoff turns my ideas about thinking and reason on their head (very punny, I know).
Not at all surprising that Cenk Uyger conducted it. TYT Nation!
toosinbeymen 2 years ago 10
The tool of politics is language. Do you know what linguistics means?
klard 3 years ago 10