Dissapointment

Cognitive dissonance

“one of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.”

Brain binding structures?

p. 27.

Brain and memory formation

Big brains mean?

How the media is important

though misleading.

George Lakoff, The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to your Brain and Politics. Penguin, (2008-2009)

Links:

• William Greider, Come Home, America
• Water- private property or public good?
• Social stratification and economic inequality
• The ten lessons of Postman and Sontag
• Overseas, or Foreign Press a sampling
• Protect the commons
• USA print media, daily newspapers
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee, 1941.

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