#GeorgeLakoff: “…from the viewpoint of corporations & other businesses…’regulations’ are limitations on their freedom to do whatever they want no matter who it harms. But from the public’s viewpoint, a regulation is a protection against harm done by unscrupulous corporations seeking to maximize profit at the cost of harm to the public.”
Such as👇
https://apnews.com/article/chevron-union-oil-kevin-wright-california-santa-barbara-benzene-myeloma-cancer-63-million-57529d07bb50b8882f719d1e8707d951

I think this is from #GeorgeLakoff’s book (not totally sure as I found it in my photos). But it’s a good thing to keep in mind, that people will work hard to maintain their sense of well-being.

It makes me think of #conservatives and their inherent need to maintain the status quo, with their fear of things getting worse. Or the ones who want to roll back changes to return to a time when they supposedly were better off.

Or #moderates who don’t want to rock the boat too much.

#psychology

This is why propaganda is so deadly, and why #freespeech absolutism is shilling for #fascism

Democracy cannot function under a megaphone of lies.

#georgelakoff

I wish everyone in the #DNC and in #Democrat leadership would read #GeorgeLakoff's book & newsletter. I do think that we're starting to get it but it sucks that we had to be on the precipice before they started figuring things out.

Thx to @georgelakoff 🙏🏽

https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

@tom4okstate @jimcarroll Yes, the degree of ignorant cruelty the current instantiation of the #GOP exhibits is staggering. How come an entire party so completely loses track of its basic humanity? Sure Trump did that. But he's a sociopath with serious mental problems of his own. Yet, Republicans fell under his spell, and can't get out of it. Some deep #GeorgeLakoff stuff going on here

Here are some concepts that caught my eye when I was reading #GeorgeLakoff’s ‘Don’t Think of an Elephant,’ a fantastic #book on #politics and framing #arguments.

The title covers the general idea - it makes you think of an elephant, right? Even though it says not to.

That’s framing and it feels like the core of the conservative playbook.

#framelab

1/2 I'm preparing my 300-word testimony for my weekly Empathy Surplus Network USA adult forum tonight. After tonight, we recess for Thanksgiving and reconvene for the final four weeks of discussion and application of the latest insights in the book by cognitive scientist and linguist #GeorgeLakoff entitled "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think." Our first-trimester adult forum of 2023 will discuss and apply Lakoff's "Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea."

#introduction #PagosaSprings #democraticparty #bread #colorado #HotSprings #photos #ArchuletaCounty #ArchuletaDems #GardeningMastodon #ChimayoChili #SantaFeOpera #projectmanager #project #agile #Rav4 #buddhism #flyfishing #meditation #LiberalGunClub #jayhawks #HatchChili #GreenChili #PressureCanning #instantpot #collegefootball #collegebasketball #SanJuanMountains #Wenenuche #SouthernUteTribe #co3 #WolfCreekPass #SanJuanRiver #GeorgeLakoff #ColoradoDems Curing ballots for #AdamForColorado

AxisOfEasy Salon #30: Doc Searls on “That Weird House of Cards Feeling around Everything”

https://axisofeasy.com/podcast/salon-30-doc-searls-on-that-weird-house-of-cards-feeling-around-everything/

#AndrewMcLuhan #AugustineTaylor #AxisOfEasy #AxisOfEasy #CharlesHughSmith #CluetrainManifesto #CustomerCommons #DocSearls #EricMcLuhan #EricRaymond #GeorgeLakoff #JesseHirsh #LinuxJournal #MarkE.Jeftovic #MarshalMcLuhan #ProjectVRM #TimHwang

Yet another entry at The #Lextopia: We Need Deeper Understandings of Human Nature to Stop Cycles of Anger, Hurt, Bigotry, and Partisanship

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2018/11/we-need-deeper-understandings-of-human.html

#CycleOfAnger #GeorgeLakoff #HumanNature #Pluralism #Politics #SocialPhilosophy #SocialPsychology

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