#lakoff — Public Fediverse posts
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Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Is all language metaphor? 🧐
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/04/when-everything-is-metaphor-nothing-is/?utm_source=masto
I posted this last night. A follower chimed in. His speciality is anthropology.
Philippe Descola’s framework in Beyond Nature and Culture outlines four ontological regimes:
• Naturalism (the modern Western default)
• Animism
• Totemism
• Analogism#philosophy #psychology #anthropology #cognitivescience #cognition #worldview #ontology #grammar #metaphor #Lakoff #Wittgenstein #languagegames #blog #podcast #anthropology
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@blankfosk
George #Lakoff en parla d'això, en el context dels EUA però fàcilment extrapolable a tot #occident, a "Política moral" -
Canviem el llenguatge per afavorir l'interès general.
Impost = contribució
Paradís fiscal = sangonera fiscalLes paraules canvien les percepcions.
Si pagues una quota al gimnàs perquè cal mantenir-lo, per què no has de contribuir a invertir en i mantenir els serveis públics?
Un gran article d'en @carlesp al @diarilaveu_bot.
I com diu un economista amic meu: l'important no és pagar contribucions (imposts), sinó com s'utilitzen.
#Lakoff #Llengua #Economia
https://www.diarilaveu.cat/opinio/els-impostos-son-una-bona-inversio-per-al-futur-589983/ -
💥“Motivated ignorance,” 💥refers to willfully blinding oneself to facts.
It’s choosing not to know.
In many cases, for many people, knowing the truth is simply too costly, too psychologically painful, too threatening to their core identity.
Nescience is therefore incentivized; people actively decide to remain in a state of ignorance.
If they are presented with strong arguments against a position they hold, or compelling evidence that disproves the narrative they embrace, they will reject them.
Doing so fends off the psychological distress of the realization that they’ve been lying to themselves and to others.This is why, as cognitive scientist George #Lakoff suggests, the truth (facts) will not set them free.
Or as his former student, Anat Shenker-Osorio, quips,
truth for some people is more an “I’ll see it when I believe it” proposition
and not the other way around.
Motivated cognition, she told Lawrence O’Donnell, “is a helluva drug.”Motivated ignorance is a widespread phenomenon; most people, to one degree or another, employ it.
What matters is the degree to which one embraces it, and the consequences of doing so.
In the case of #MAGA world, the lies that Trump supporters believe, or say they believe, are obviously untrue and obviously destructive.
Since 2016 there’s been a ratchet effect, each conspiracy theory getting more preposterous and more malicious.
Things that Trump supporters wouldn’t believe or accept in the past have since become loyalty tests.
Election denialism is one example.
The claim that Trump is the target of “lawfare,” victim to the weaponization of the justice system, is another.In an Atlantic article Wehner struggles, as do I, with how to assess the moral character of people who may otherwise present as decent people yet celebrate Trump’s lies and “defend his lawlessness and undisguised cruelty.”
Political opinions are but one area of people’s intellectual lives. It’s one thing to embrace a conspiracy theory about faked moon landings that has little real-world impact.
But it’s another “if the falsehood you’re embracing and promoting is venomous, harming others, and eroding cherished principles, promoting violence and subverting American democracy.” And getting people terrorized and killed.Wehner cites the cases of two pro-segregation Baptist ministers from the 1950s and 60s.
Now ask yourself this:
Did the fierce advocacy on behalf of segregation, and the dehumanization of Black Americans, reflect in any meaningful way on the character of those who advanced such views,
even if, say, they volunteered once a month at a homeless shelter and wrote a popular commentary on the Book of Romans?Readers can decide whether MAGA supporters are better or worse than Albert Garner and Carey Daniel.
My point is that all of us believe there’s some place on the continuum in which the political choices we make reflect on our character.
Some movements are overt and malignant enough that to willingly be a part of them becomes ethically problematic.
If not “grievously wrong,” perhaps as in joining Trump’s MAGA movement.Many, Wehner adds, “are self-proclaimed evangelicals and fundamentalists,
and they are also doing inestimable damage to the Christian faith they claim is central to their lives.
That collaboration needs to be named.
A generation from now, and probably sooner, it will be obvious to everyone that Trump supporters can’t claim they didn’t know.”
They will have ash in their feather dusters:The villagers, he said, knew about the camp, and watched daily as thousands of prisoners would arrive by rail car,
herded like cattle into the camp.
Even though the camp never could have held the vast numbers of prisoners who were brought in,
the villagers knew that no one ever left.
They also knew that the smokestack of the camp’s crematorium belched a near-steady stream of smoke and ash.
Yet the villagers chose to remain ignorant about what went on inside the camp.
No one inquired, because no one wanted to know.“But every day,” he said, “these people, in their neat Germanic way, would get out their feather dusters and go outside.
And, never thinking about what it meant, they would sweep off the layer of ash that would settle on their windowsills overnight.
Then they would return to their neat, clean lives and pretend not to notice what was happening next door.”“When the camps were liberated and their contents were revealed, they all expressed surprise and horror at what had gone on inside,” he said.
“But they all had ash in their feather dusters.”
MAGA cult members will too,
let’s hope only figuratively.Vote like your safety depends on it.
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@jojo_en_riant Ich "hadere" da eigentlich weniger, sondern störe mich am Labeling insgesamt. Deswegen wiederhole ich solche #Label auch nicht, mir selbst gegenüber nicht, und schon gar nicht öffentlich.
George #Lakoff hat für sein "truth sandwich" die Wiederholung der Lüge in der Mitte auf das nötigste beschränkt, weil man sie damit letztlich auch nur wieder verstärkt und ihr eine Platform gibt.
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EMPATHY = DEMOCRACY
“If you don’t care what happens to other people — if you only care about yourself — why would you care to live in a democracy?”
“Empathy is the central component of a healthy and functioning democracy. That’s because democracy is based on the principle of equal representation. Empathy is necessary to understand and respect the perspectives and experiences of diverse individuals and communities.”
SOURCE: https://framelab.substack.com/p/george-lakoff-why-is-empathy-central
#empathy #democracy #sharing #caring #Lakoff #people #justice #society #freedom #progress #government #law
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CW: For decades, majorities had almost always agreed with donkeys on issues and policies- while electing far more elephants. Facing Dirty Pool on a Green Table, Can Dems at Last See Red?
For decades, majorities had almost always agreed with donkeys on issues and policies- while electing far more elephants.
Facing Dirty Pool on a Green Table, Can Dems at Last See Red? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/27/2144061/-Facing-Dirty-Pool-on-a-Green-Table-Can-Dems-at-Last-See-Red
#GOPLies
#GOPSellsBSWell
#Lakoff"At least since 2007, psychology professor/author Daniel Gilbert has credited psychology professor/neuroscientist/pundit Drew Westen with solving the longstanding enigma of blue underachievement at the polls. That year, Dr. Westen’s landmark study The Political Brain appeared. For decades, majorities had almost always agreed with donkeys on issues and policies- while electing far more elephants.
Something was wrong. On the stump, wonk had not served Dems well. Indeed, whenever Dr. Westen heard one exult about having outstripped a foe “on policy,” he knew the blue side would lose.
On it went. In Virginia’s 2021 governor’s race, facing a slick, pseudo-moderate ever-Trumper, Terry McAuliffe needed to define Glenn Youngkin as a despot in sheep’s clothing. Instead, effectively flouting Dr. Westen, McAuliffe vowed to ride “the right policies” to Richmond.
Predictably enough, he made it as far as Palookaville.
Not for naught does The Political Brain call Dems “irrationally wedded to rationality.” In effect, it pegs Republicans as rationally hitched to hair-on-fire fear-stoking (and steeped with more method in their madness than one might want to suspect).
Dr. Westen goes so far as to see them playing chess while donkeys push checkers. He might have added, shooting pool while planning long series of shots.
Moving forward, let’s hope Dems keep in mind the political arena is not Pilgrim’s Progress. Not only may virtue go unrewarded; it may (almost literally) inherit the wind.
Take climate change. Logically, rationally, and decently, one might think the cult of “drill, baby drill” would know the jig is up. Show some shame. Moan a few mea culpas. And start to get real.
But here’s the thing. Sooner rather than later, the politics of greenhouse gassing will roil with scores of millions of climate refugees. Many can be expected to trek through Mexico- toward the border the GOP styles a welcome mat for “invaders.”
Never mind its own seditious invasion of our county’s Capitol. (Oh, well.)
More often than not, seeing is believing. During the next few campaigns, voters will see greenhouse gas-displaced throngs clamoring for entry- while GOP-licensed efflux from fossil fuels remains invisible.
That suggests the droves on our doorstep will not be blamed on reckless, habitat-ravaging tuskers; they’ll be pinned on decorous, abstemious donkeys.
So, look out. The cult that fights clean energy plays dirty pool. From Ronald ‘Trees Pollute More Than Cars’ Reagan to George W. ‘Green While Campaigning Only’ Bush to Donald “Rake And Clean” Trump to Ann “Rape The Earth” Coulter, the far right’s Earth-skewing axis of depredation must be stopped.
The sooner we make bold to escape from behind their strategically placed eight balls, the better."
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I discussed metaphor with a fun group recently. https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/A-Discussion-of-Metaphor-e1t6c0q
#McLuhan, #Jaynes, #McGilchrist, Douglas #Hofstadter, #Heidegger, Barbara #Ehrenreich, #Freud, #Nietzsche, Ivan #Bilibin, #Tarkovsky, #Durkheim, #Kuhn, Lera Boroditsky, Johnson and #Lakoff 😊
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Mostly reading the suttas on #Buddhism and #DependentOrignation. I have two main questions: is birth about the birth of self-view, i.e., can happen several times each day? And: does suffering develop over childhood? Looks like the answer to both might be yes. Still interested in #Abelard's #conceptualism, the #Zettelkasten, and listened to podcasts on #Hume and #Lakoff. Updated #ReadingLog