What Happened to Progressivism?

https://brownstone.org/articles/what-happened-to-progressivism/

by squircle • 1 year ago

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squircle3• 1 year ago

I dont abide in any particular worldview... ideology is for campers. But, this article is interesting for its discussion of cognitive framing.

TimorousBestie3• 1 year ago

You’re better off reading Lakoff directly than this opinionated take on one facet of his work.

squircle3• 1 year 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.

zahlman• 1 year ago

(2022); also this revolves around a particular inflammatory issue and hides what it's about for the first half or so.

Mountain_Skies• 1 year 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.

TimorousBestie3• 1 year ago

Flag creases? What do you mean?

squircle3• 1 year 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.)

What Happened to Progressivism?

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