+William Huston Thank you for your interest! Unfortunately, we cannot post the entire video of every program. However, we are working on bringing you more content, and to start we offer every program in its entirety as a free podcast. You can find this program here: climateone.org/events/climate-cognition Enjoy!
why can't you post the whole video? when you do that these videos become more commericals than video, and while I think it's great if Lakoff sells more books, I see enough commericals all day all over the place. This man needs to be heard. What is the problem?
Didn't get it! First he said whatever comes to your brain is going to change to fit to what you already know. Then he said when facts get to your brain, if they don't fit, they are ignored, ridicule or attacked. Where's the changing that should happen to the facts as to everything else too?! Now... the first part is true but the explanation is lousy.
He seems to assume that only conservatives deny facts and refuse to change their worldview in reponse to them. But obviously many liberals tend to deny some facts, even scientific ones (Jonathan Haidt says we all do it when our "sacred values" are challenged), and some conservatives change their views to fit the facts. So the idea that the conservative mind is some sort of unmovable object is false. Only yesterday, I learned about Jerry Taylor, who worked for twenty years for the Cato Institute (you can't go more pro-free-market than that) and realised its position on global warming was false and dishonest. He went on to found the Niskanen Institute, which affirms anthropogenic global warming as a major threat. Its motto, by the way, is Richard Feynman's "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."
If You Actually Paid Attention To What The Man Was Saying, I Doubt You Would've Come To This Conclusion. He Said People ( Both Conservatives And Progressives ) Have Their Own Way Of Looking At The World.
This is just a clip, remember. If you were more familiar with Lakoff’s works you would know that he speaks of people who are Bi-Conceptuals, people who are conservative on some issues and progressive on others. For example, I speak to many “Progressives” about economics. They believe that we need to collect taxes in order to pay for stuff at the federal (central government) level, that we need to “tax the rich and the corporations”, that “they need to pay their fair share”. But it is clear that the central government must spend those coins into the economy first, give us the funds in order to pay a tax or even save, because it is the government’s coin in the first place and if you try to counterfeit it you get into big trouble with the government. These “Progressives” will actually ignore, ridicule or attack what I say, this fact. Therefore they truly are Bi-Conceptuals, progressive on many issues (social, civil, political) but conservative on economic. That’s an example. I hope it helps. Why do you trust Haidt?
