Linguist George Lakoff on Rationality and Politics


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25 Responses to “Linguist George Lakoff on Rationality and Politics”

  • dowling1981 says:

    toos, please do not cuss Georgelette Lakoff

  • toosinbeymen says:

    This may be the most appealing and compelling interview I’ve ever seen. Prof Lakoff turns my thoughts about thinking and reason on their head (very punny, I know).

    Not at all surprising that Cenk Uyger conducted it. TYT Nation!

  • winonatechie says:

    Republicans oppose knowledge except when it helps their leading political donors so it isn’t any surprise conservatives are making irrational attacks on Lakeoff.

  • bestsnowboarderuknow says:

    george lakoff is a joke, don’t be fooled people. Conservative values are whats best for this country.

  • klard says:

    The tool of politics is language. Do you know what linguistics means?

  • mangamissou says:

    wow huh LOL . chck out my profile for more vids. M

  • cessation says:

    r 18/F/Texas. hrmMMmmm. someone msg me im bored!! 8

  • apks2004 says:

    Aptly On the money Video!

  • Tuppington says:

    since politicians don’t communicate through semaphore.

  • bohemond4 says:

    This wacko is a hardcore socialist just like Chomsky. His Liberal Psychobabble is amusing!!!!

  • sixbillionmorons says:

    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 know. Take my word for it: I’m a professor (with republican funding).

  • DEATHDEATHDEATHAHAHA says:

    If one were to be entirely rational, one would commit suicide. For only pitiful self-trick distracts us from the fact that we are all on an ocean liner headed for the ocean. Life is no more than a joke in appallingly terrible taste.

  • sugarpuddin88 says:

    After this piece by TYT, I went out and got the book

    It altered my understanding of “teaching”

    I’m a physician and studied, inter alia, neurology — His book is written in simple prose; but, I reckon some of it might appear esoteric to most

    I have fantastic 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

  • GrownupPhan says:

    My guess is that Obama has read several of George’s books. His thoughts are all over the way Barack constructs his speeches. But point taken about Lakoff communicating like a professor.

  • subzeromind says:

    It’s complex material 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.

  • subzeromind says:

    Yeah Chomsky basically invented linguistics.

  • TheFrankFactor says:

    Fantastic topic and deftly handled by Cenk. I second the riveting comment.

  • KiwiTwist03 says:

    This is riveting!

  • 8data says:

    all stout men are jolly

  • asdffd says:

    I wish Cenk would get Chomsky on.

  • ParisianHermit says:

    lol I thought that was hilarious too…maybe norbu should initiation practicing “Googlism”

  • queeblogalina says:

    What a snooze! How ironic how he doesn’t take his own information and make his delivery more exciting. When was this thesis made? Certainly before the success of Obama!

  • daderone says:

    I like George Lakoff more than Cenk

  • dustynbones says:

    Wooohoo!

    Do you reckon that the DNC will heed?

  • boringlyawesum says:

    yeah the second they started saying “surge” they lost. why didnt they just call it everytime by what it truely is an escalation of troops, surge sounds like a late 4th quarter “WIN”

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