Daily Kos On George Lakoff
Like every other blue state liberal, I began reading George Lakoff's works about a year ago. His idea is that all social policy boils down to a sort of family model, and that conservatives and liberals have very different ideas of what a healthy family looks like, with conservatives embracing the "tough daddy in charge" model while liberals dig the "nurturant co-parenting" model.
Unlike most liberals, I think Lakoff is important but not persuasive. I find his assumptions to be arrogant in that way that conservatives often accuse liberals of being arrogant, and this time I agree with them.
So anyway, I keep reading other liberal critique of Lakoff, and I found this today:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/22/175119/489
I read it quickly but I find it interesting, and recommend it to those of you who may feel that "Don't Think of An Elephant" provides the ultimate blueprint for liberal political success in the next elections.
Unlike most liberals, I think Lakoff is important but not persuasive. I find his assumptions to be arrogant in that way that conservatives often accuse liberals of being arrogant, and this time I agree with them.
So anyway, I keep reading other liberal critique of Lakoff, and I found this today:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/22/175119/489
I read it quickly but I find it interesting, and recommend it to those of you who may feel that "Don't Think of An Elephant" provides the ultimate blueprint for liberal political success in the next elections.
posted by PeaceBang at 10:48 AM
1 Comments:
I don't think Lakoff 's says that liberals are all in favor of the "nurturant parent" model. Except for people who have actually read the book, people aren't "in favor" of one model or the other. He's defining a model or a framework where things aren't as black and white as his definitions might make people think.
He says there are a lot of exceptions on both sides, but that liberals have a general tendency to display many of the traits of the fuzzy side, and conservatives have a general tendency to display many of the traits of the stern side.
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