Linguist George Lakoff on Rationality and Politics
Posted on December 8, 2009 | 25 Comments
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Posted on December 8, 2009 | 25 Comments
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toos, please do not cuss Georgelette Lakoff
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!
lmao… too bad you cant delete your own comments on YT.
Republicans oppose science except when it helps their largest political donors so it isn’t any surprise conservatives are making irrational attacks on Lakeoff.
george lakoff is a joke, don’t be fooled people. Conservative values are whats best for this country.
The tool of politics is language. Do you know what linguistics means?
wow huh LOL . chck out my profile for more vids. M
r 18/F/Texas. hrmMMmmm. someone msg me im bored!! 8
Right On the money Video!
since politicians don’t communicate through semaphore.
This wacko is a hardcore socialist just like Chomsky. His Liberal Psychobabble is amusing!!!!
Remember folks, it’s all very, very complicated; nothing is what it seems at all. When it seems like republicans are screwing you to death, it’s not what it seems, and you should just accept it. Don’t question it; you’re too dumb to understand. Take my word for it: I’m a professor (with republican funding).
If one were to be entirely rational, one would commit suicide. For only pitiful self-deception distracts us from the fact that we are all on an ocean liner headed for the seabed. Life is no more than a joke in appallingly bad taste.
After this piece by TYT, I went out and got the book
It changed my understanding of “teaching”
I’m a physician and studied, inter alia, neurology — His book is written in easy prose; however, I think some of it might appear esoteric to most
I have great diagrams and algorithms to refer too – I wish he had included them in his book
I must add that I am only on page 50! So more soon
My guess is that Obama has read several of George’s books. His ideas are all over the way Barack constructs his speeches. But point taken about Lakoff communicating like a professor.
It’s complex stuff man, he had to dilute it for the layman. He’s explaining that reality is not what we traditionally have thought, that even perception is a matter of our “personal” frames of references. Hence why an Amazonian who has rarely seen straight lines has difficulty seeing them when presented by them. I always had this suspicion but this is some confirmation.
Yeah Chomsky basically invented linguistics.
Great topic and deftly handled by Cenk. I second the riveting comment.
This is riveting!
all fat men are jolly
I wish Cenk would get Chomsky on.
lol I thought that was hilarious too…maybe norbu should start practicing “Googlism”
What a snooze! How ironic how he doesn’t take his own advice and make his delivery more exciting. When was this thesis created? Certainly before the success of Obama!
I love George Lakoff more than Cenk
Wooohoo!
Do you think that the DNC will heed?