tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post1294103862866289075..comments2024-03-18T12:22:54.723-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: System and LifeworldCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-38588363079441733062017-01-22T07:46:14.942-05:002017-01-22T07:46:14.942-05:00I've been reading the revised "Don't ...I've been reading the revised "Don't Think of an Elephant!" by George Lakoff, and I think he's done a lot to resolve the mystery why people vote against their own interests.<br />Our brain constructs a scene from the electromagnetic waves in a certain frequency band that enters our eyes using circuits etched into our neurons that cause that image to form. In a similar way our brain constructs the social & moral world we think we inhabit by using templates etched into our brains that tell us how the world "should" look like. Lakoff calls those 'frames', and they trump contradictory facts most of the time.<br />Unfortunately, the Right has knowingly been surreptitiously slipping frames into many peoples heads that only allows them to see things in the way that want them to see them.<br />We are less rational beings than we think we are, and we can only see those facts that our frames allow us to see.<br />We need to create frames that allow those in the middle to see that the values we take for granted apply to them also.<br />/rant <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-7353994363783331362017-01-20T15:01:15.157-05:002017-01-20T15:01:15.157-05:00Well, they're about to lose their federal fund...Well, they're about to lose their federal funding. All those decades of sucking up aren't going to save them now. Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-43669119709167229642017-01-20T14:29:45.639-05:002017-01-20T14:29:45.639-05:00I still remember when NPR took a shit, in terms of...I still remember when NPR took a shit, in terms of any responsibility or objectivity whatsoever. It was 1991. We started bombing Iraq under the first criminal Bush on January 15 (of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday--how appropriate! Discriminate against and kill brown-skinned people at home AND abroad). NPR accepted the Pentagon's rules--you'll report what we let you report, based on what we agree to show you. The lessons of Vietnam were learned--don't give the press access to the truth of what's going on. And NPR agreed.<br /><br />Hence, National Pentagon Radio. They are smug, not funny, cowed and ignorant. They are in the "let's make people feel good and appease conservatives" crowd. So as Rome starts to burn, they are joking like the bunch of chuckleheads they are.<br /><br />And Scott Simon, while idiotic, sounds like Dr. Evil. I can't stand to hear him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com