Lakoff's Thinking Points - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-28T18:49:38Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/lakoffs-thinking-points?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A65895&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLakoff & Wehling, The Lit…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-08-04:5301756:Comment:658952016-08-04T19:06:32.194ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Lakoff & Wehling, <em>The Little Blue Book</em>, attached in epub format. Epub can be downloaded for free.</p>
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<p>Lakoff & Wehling, <em>The Little Blue Book</em>, attached in epub format. Epub can be downloaded for free.</p>
<p></p> Lakoff's Don't Think Like an…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-05-03:5301756:Comment:611202015-05-03T20:21:43.841ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Lakoff's <em><a href="http://occupytampa.org/files/tristan/fem/books/George_Lakoff,_Howard_Dean,_Don_Hazen-Don_t_Thin-Bookos.org-.pdf" target="_blank">Don't Think Like an Elephant</a></em>.</p>
<p>Lakoff's <em><a href="http://occupytampa.org/files/tristan/fem/books/George_Lakoff,_Howard_Dean,_Don_Hazen-Don_t_Thin-Bookos.org-.pdf" target="_blank">Don't Think Like an Elephant</a></em>.</p> The recent election, despite…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-11-09:5301756:Comment:589472014-11-09T20:54:51.949ZLayman Pascalhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/LaymanPascal
<p>The recent election, despite the historical normalcy of two-term president's facing oppositional legislatures in their final two years, should remind us how important it is to shift the thinking of progressive politics (both politicians and casual or activist political conversations across the world) in the direction of non-naive messaging and functional attitudes relative to the mass spirit of people. Lakoff's 12 points should be read weekly! </p>
<p>Again I do not think Elizabeth Warren…</p>
<p>The recent election, despite the historical normalcy of two-term president's facing oppositional legislatures in their final two years, should remind us how important it is to shift the thinking of progressive politics (both politicians and casual or activist political conversations across the world) in the direction of non-naive messaging and functional attitudes relative to the mass spirit of people. Lakoff's 12 points should be read weekly! </p>
<p>Again I do not think Elizabeth Warren has a chance but she is certain most understanding than most of them and ought to be prominently supported and encouraged. Therefore: Warren 2016!</p> See his recent article here.…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-11-08:5301756:Comment:588822014-11-08T16:00:40.260ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>See his recent article <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342513/-Democratic-Strategies-Lost-Big-Here-s-an-alternative">here</a>. He lays out the typical Democrat political strategy and why it doesn't work. Why they keep using this playbook when it always fails is insane. What he suggests is exactly what Obama did in his reelection campaign. From the article:</p>
<p>"Such strategies miss the opportunity to present an overriding moral stand that fits the individual issues,…</p>
<p>See his recent article <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342513/-Democratic-Strategies-Lost-Big-Here-s-an-alternative">here</a>. He lays out the typical Democrat political strategy and why it doesn't work. Why they keep using this playbook when it always fails is insane. What he suggests is exactly what Obama did in his reelection campaign. From the article:</p>
<p>"Such strategies miss the opportunity to present an overriding moral stand that fits the individual issues, while saying clearly what ideals Democrats stand for as Democrats. There happens to be such an overriding ideal that most Democrats authentically believe in. [...] Progressive and conservatives have very different understandings of democracy. For progressives empathy is at the center of the very idea of democracy. Democracy is a governing system in which citizens care about their fellow citizens and work through their government to provide public resources for all. In short, in a democracy, the private depends on the public. Elisabeth Warren says it out loud. [Which is why she must be the next President!]</p>
<p>"If you have a business it depends on public resources: roads, bridges, the Interstate highway system, sewers, a water supply, airports and air traffic control, the Federal Reserve, a patent office, public education for your employees, public health, the electric grid, the satellite communication system, the internet, and all the government research behind computer science. You can’t run a business without these. Private enterprise depends on the public.</p>
<p>"The same is true of individuals, who depend on public resources like clean air, clean water, enough food, safe food and products, public safety, access to education and health care, housing, employment — as well as those roads, bridges, sewers, satellite communication, electric grid, and so on. And most important — voting in free elections, choosing the government to provide those resources. Private life depends on the public. What public resources provide is freedom. Most progressive issues are freedom issues."</p> Lerner goes further than crit…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-26:5301756:Comment:102022011-03-26T16:58:11.456ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Lerner goes further than criticism though and takes to heart the likes of Lakoff's reframing of values and principles. He says:</p>
<p>"The most important contribution progressives could make at this time to American political life is to introduce and popularize a new vision of what America could be, as well as present examples of specific programs that manifest this vision at work.... What is needed is a whole new way of speaking...what we now call the spiritual progressive vision.... This…</p>
<p>Lerner goes further than criticism though and takes to heart the likes of Lakoff's reframing of values and principles. He says:</p>
<p>"The most important contribution progressives could make at this time to American political life is to introduce and popularize a new vision of what America could be, as well as present examples of specific programs that manifest this vision at work.... What is needed is a whole new way of speaking...what we now call the spiritual progressive vision.... This new way of speaking would involve talking about a New Bottom Line of commitment to love, kindness, generosity, caring for everyone on the planet, compassion, forgiveness, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and celebration, awe, and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.</p>
<p>"We support...ending the war in Afghanistan, creating a new New Deal to end poverty and economic suffering in the United States, imposing a carbon tax to lower atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million, passing Medicare for All, defunding the military, and jailing those who ordered or facilitated torture."</p> Lerner also quoted this respo…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-26:5301756:Comment:102012011-03-26T16:40:15.821ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Lerner also quoted this response from "Historians against the war":</p>
<p>"Mr. Obama declared that 'America has been the story of ordinary people who dare to dream,' but his focus on competitiveness means embracing corporate rather than democratic values and reflects Mr. Obama’s recent appointments of business executives and business-oriented advisors to crucial advisory and policy formation positions within his administration. The push for competitiveness is an attempt to reassert what…</p>
<p>Lerner also quoted this response from "Historians against the war":</p>
<p>"Mr. Obama declared that 'America has been the story of ordinary people who dare to dream,' but his focus on competitiveness means embracing corporate rather than democratic values and reflects Mr. Obama’s recent appointments of business executives and business-oriented advisors to crucial advisory and policy formation positions within his administration. The push for competitiveness is an attempt to reassert what historian William Appleman Williams called 'open door imperialism,' the export of goods and investment of capital abroad with concern only for profits, disregarding the human consequences and paving the way for military intervention when needed to achieve political stability or cooperation. What we need if we are to advance as a nation is a spirit of cooperation at home and abroad. We need to organize our educational system not around competition but around personal rights, ensuring, as John Kennedy explained in his address to the country on civil rights, that all children have the right 'to be educated to the limit' of their talents. We need to organize our society around meeting the basic needs of all and cooperating with one another rather than merely asserting everyone should have the chance to try to grab the brass ring. We need to create a world economy based on equality and friendship among peoples, not a competitive race to the top which often forces people from poorer nations and working people in richer nations to the bottom. Symptomatic of the mistaken idea that the competitive market solves all problems is the adoption of NAFTA and other so-called free trade pacts. Although several Latin American states have successfully rejected the International Monetary Fund model of austerity and privatization and put resources toward expanding social benefits and infrastructure development, NAFTA has increased profits for U.S. agricultural firms, flooded Mexico with corn and meat subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, and undermined Mexico’s rural economy. Workers in neither country have benefited and large numbers of Mexicans have been forced to leave the land, work in American-owned border town factories as cheap labor under the most deplorable working and living conditions, or to seek employment in our country."</p> See for example Rabbi Michael…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-26:5301756:Comment:100072011-03-26T16:23:10.975ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>See for example Rabbi Michael Lerner's critique in <em><a href="http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/a-progressive-strategy-for-2011-2012" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tikkun</a></em>. An excerpt:</p>
<p>"For two years, <em>Tikkun</em> critiqued President Obama for not putting forward a consistent narrative or worldview. As of Obama’s State of the Union address, our view has changed decisively — inconsistency is no longer the problem; he has made himself clear. But the worldview he has adopted is…</p>
<p>See for example Rabbi Michael Lerner's critique in <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/a-progressive-strategy-for-2011-2012" target="_blank">Tikkun</a></em>. An excerpt:</p>
<p>"For two years, <em>Tikkun</em> critiqued President Obama for not putting forward a consistent narrative or worldview. As of Obama’s State of the Union address, our view has changed decisively — inconsistency is no longer the problem; he has made himself clear. But the worldview he has adopted is unequivocally the one that Republicans have championed for the past eighty years: economic nationalism backed by a competitive ethos domestically and a strong military internationally. Obama’s message is the opposite of the message that we urged him to adopt about seeking to build 'The Caring Society' by caring for each other and caring for the earth."</p> Lakoff notes in the Huff Post…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-25:5301756:Comment:100022011-03-25T17:57:44.903ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Lakoff notes <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-new-obama-narrative_b_815326.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in the Huff Post</a> that since Obama's SOTU address earlier this year his new frame is "competitiveness." This is O's attempt to split those bi-conceptual business conservatives from the more hard-line cultural conservatives. It might work but I wonder if he'll further alienate his base with this frame. In L's book the idea is to use rhetoric that remains…</p>
<p>Lakoff notes <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-new-obama-narrative_b_815326.html" target="_blank">in the Huff Post</a> that since Obama's SOTU address earlier this year his new frame is "competitiveness." This is O's attempt to split those bi-conceptual business conservatives from the more hard-line cultural conservatives. It might work but I wonder if he'll further alienate his base with this frame. In L's book the idea is to use rhetoric that remains true to your core principles and your base and that also wins some of the bi-conceptuals, and competitiveness leaves out quite a bit from that core. L says:</p>
<p>"He failed to say that Social Security has a two-and-a-half trillion dollar surplus and that it is earned, not given away. What is called a 'cut' would actually be theft from those who have paid into it over a lifetime. He needs to go on the offensive on Social Security, not be defensive. The same on Medicare. He failed to mention that it works and has the lowest operating cost of any form of health care by far. He failed to say that pensions are delayed earned payments for work already done, and that the conservative move to allow states and cities to declare bankruptcy is really a move to eliminate pensions for public employees and eliminate as much of public service as possible. He failed to say that 'privatization' doesn't eliminate government, but institutes government by corporation for corporate profit not the benefit for citizens. He failed to say that we should have gratitude for immigrants -- with or without papers, educated or not -- who work hard at low pay to make possible the lifestyles of the middle and upper classes. He failed to defend the right to unionize as the foundation of fair working relationships."</p>
<p>L thinks the above missing elements could fit a competitiveness frame and it was a missed opportunity. I wonder if that is so, that the very idea of competitiveness supports the above issues, at least on its own. I wonder if what is needed is more empathic, social frames like in the above quoted paragraph. I suppose we might say all those things make us more competitive because we are a happier, more equitable people as a whole, but that comes primarily from our cooperation that checks and balances just our competitiveness. I wonder if once again the big O is accepting their (aka the wealthy few) frame to our (aka rest of us) detriment. And that maybe even the L is falling a bit for it?</p> David Coates says we need to…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-25:5301756:Comment:100012011-03-25T15:50:46.251ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>David Coates says we need to “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coates/reframing-the-deficit-deb_b_840123.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reframe the deficit debate</a>” in yesterday’s Huff Post. A few excerpts (but read the entire excellent article):</p>
<p>"There are at least three things missing from the dominant discourse, three bodies of material that progressives need continually to bring back into the public conversation about deficit reduction. We need continually to…</p>
<p>David Coates says we need to “<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coates/reframing-the-deficit-deb_b_840123.html" target="_blank">reframe the deficit debate</a>” in yesterday’s Huff Post. A few excerpts (but read the entire excellent article):</p>
<p>"There are at least three things missing from the dominant discourse, three bodies of material that progressives need continually to bring back into the public conversation about deficit reduction. We need continually to reassert (a) that 'we' are not broke; (b) that cutting programs would not be the best way to reduce the deficit, even if we were broke; and (c) that the dominant issue in American life - as distinct from in American politics - is not the scale of public borrowing. America has many bigger problems than its supposedly dangerous deficit, problems that premature deficit reduction will likely make even worse.</p>
<p>Deficit reduction, Republican-style, is not sound economics. It is class warfare wrapped up in the language of accountancy. What is being cut are services vital to the well-being of the American middle class and to the American poor. What is being protected is the private income of the corporate rich.</p>
<p>Instead of temporizing with Republicans who are determined to cut public services regardless of the appalling social consequences, the Obama Administration should, as a matter of high priority, mount a clear and sustained challenge to the whole logic underlying the Republican position. Instead of accommodation, the Administration should try principled rejection…. He should defend public sector workers against the nonsense that it is their largesse - rather than that of corporate America - that is bringing public spending to the point of collapse."</p> On p. 27 he talks about how c…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2011-03-25:5301756:Comment:99072011-03-25T01:01:30.669ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
On p. 27 he talks about how conservatives have re-framed key terms like "patriotism." Good thing another student was paying attention, this time <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmGlxTNlFU" target="_blank">Bill Maher</a> on the re-frame. And this <a href="http://www.liberalrefugees.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6546" target="_blank">more recent re-frame</a> on Leno.<br/>
On p. 27 he talks about how conservatives have re-framed key terms like "patriotism." Good thing another student was paying attention, this time <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmGlxTNlFU" target="_blank">Bill Maher</a> on the re-frame. And this <a href="http://www.liberalrefugees.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6546" target="_blank">more recent re-frame</a> on Leno.<br/>