(2022); also this revolves around a particular inflammatory issue and hides what it's about for the first half or so.
squircle · 2h ago
This resolving to the topic of vaccines is inflammatory for sure.
Medicine and science = good.
Force feeding and shaming people into changing their behavior != good. Also, not science... only a very flaccid form of fascism.
Some days it feels as if everyone I meet has never learned how to wrestle with paradox or exercise Yeats "negative capability." (Note: I am not an artist. Just human doing human things.)
Mountain_Skies · 9h ago
The rapid increase in flag creases have caught many off guard and pushed them into feeling they must support things they don't actually support.
TimorousBestie · 9h ago
Flag creases? What do you mean?
msgodel · 2h ago
Paid actors order flags off the web and don't use them except once or twice so you always see visible creases from how they were folded for shipping.
squircle · 10h ago
I dont abide in any particular worldview... ideology is for campers. But, this article is interesting for its discussion of cognitive framing.
TimorousBestie · 9h ago
You’re better off reading Lakoff directly than this opinionated take on one facet of his work.
squircle · 9h ago
Of course. Source materials are critical. I used to be diligent about this. Way back when a friend told me I read for pleasure (this was never true, escapism at best but more likely an adaptation), which I naturally took as an affront and a challenge... The past 5 or 6 years or so I've made a conscious decision to firehose myself and study the effect on my consciousness. It has been fun and interesting to say the least but, non plus ultra.
Medicine and science = good. Force feeding and shaming people into changing their behavior != good. Also, not science... only a very flaccid form of fascism.
Some days it feels as if everyone I meet has never learned how to wrestle with paradox or exercise Yeats "negative capability." (Note: I am not an artist. Just human doing human things.)