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george lakoff Archive
Conservative Lies About Human Nature
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 5 CommentsSince World War II, America’s elite policy makers have arranged and re-arranged our political and economic relationships around an empirically false – radically false – understanding of human being and...
Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully
Posted on April 17, 2011 | No CommentsLast week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the President’s speech as if...
Disaster Messaging
Posted on July 8, 2010 | 3 CommentsDemocrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here’s a description the typical situation. • The Republicans outmessage the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, face disaster: They lose politically,...
A Revolution of Crazy Aunts and Uncles
Posted on June 14, 2009 | 2 CommentsIf we want an extravagant democracy, we should live together like one another’s crazy aunts and uncles. We are, after all, a nation founded by aunts and uncles.Character Versus Brand: A Lesson in Framing
Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsAdvertising and marketing gurus have so successfully established the importance of “brand” that we in the political sphere often lose sight of the real core of political argument: character. The...“Sixteen Tons”: A National Anthem?
Posted on March 29, 2009 | No CommentsCenturies of cultural inheritance teach us that debt puts us at moral and material disadvantage. As Margaret Atwood points out in her book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of...Death Before Disorder: Health Care and “The Reader”
Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsIn the movie, “The Reader,” Hannah Schmitz is on trial for her Nazi-era war crimes as an SS officer and prison guard, including the murder of 300 Jewish prisoners kept...
Republicans: “Take Away the Car Keys”
Posted on December 14, 2008 | No CommentsConservative ideologues looking to punish workers and the American middle class for auto industry failures are driven by an authoritarian worldview George Lakoff calls the strict parent model.Don’t think of a sick child
Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsGeorge W. Bush doesn’t want you to think of a sick child. Not Graeme Frost. Not Gemma Frost. Not Bethany Wilkerson. Not any of the real children affected. He wants...George Lakoff’s Freedom Frame
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsGeorge Lakoff is a cognitive scientist whose theories have deepened our understanding of the brain and how we think, act, talk and feel. He works in the domain of mirror...