Tuesday, September 27, 2005

George Lakeoff

I found it interesting that within the first page he tell us, "Do not use their language." Yet throughout the article he sighted one example where it paid off to use "their" language; in the case of Bill Clinton. The difference here might be that Clinton took contol and did as he chose to by using "their language and their words to describie it." Instead of the original suggestion that using the othersides' language could back you in w hole like it did Nixon, with his "not a crook" comment.

The parent models refelect to me that there not only is a clash in the moral progressive conflicts of society relating to issues of welfare, protection and class casting in terms of money. Also, no matter what paths as individuals we chose and no matter what values we possess we have no real say on anything government related since we do not exercise power within the government. Like Bush with the permission slip speech, America is the adult and does what it wants to when it desides to. If we refer to the "nations as people" hypothesis- the are many out there that disagree with America the right and portray America the wrong. Our ideas and values might devide us or bring us to the table as humanitarians- that doesn't give us any say-so with the government.

... Feeling overwhelmed !!

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