At 03:44 PM Monday 8/1/2005, Dave Land wrote:
Folks,George Lakoff, cognitive psychologist, linguist and leading light in the science of "framing" debates, notes a change in the language that the Bush administration is using to describe what it now terms the "global struggle against violent extremism." A key point: "... [D]ropping the [term] "war" while addressing the public will result in a shift in thinking in the public mind: If the war frame is not evoked in the public mind, the failure of the president's war policy will be less visible." When it was a "war," it justified the President's tough-guy stance, appeals to patriotism, practically unlimited resources and so on. Now that it's a "struggle," there's no specific mission to accomplish, so the failure to accomplish any specific mission is no big thing.
And the new acronym doesn't set off p_rn filters, either . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
