AlterNet: The Foreign Language of Choice

I think George Lakoff's a brilliant man. He has tremendous insight into the way language shapes the way we comprehend the world. In a way it's a bit like Marshall Mcluhan's 'the media is the message.' Any real changes that are to take place in our current political circumstance will have to account for the way language plays such an important role. There, I did it too. "Language plays such an important role." I'm using the metaphor of acting and a play to convey a particular idea. Strange.

I read Lakoff's "Metaphors We Live By" for an anthropology class as an undergrad--thanks Dr. Mueggler. Lakoff has recently written Don't Think of an Elephant It's sort of a progressive manifesto for communicating our ideas and values to the populace.