CONTENTS
I.
How the Brain Shapes the Political Mind
Chapters 1- 4
II.
Political Challenges for the 21st Century Mind
Chapters 5 - 12
III.
The Technical is the Political
Chapters 13 – 18

The Political Mind:

Chapters	Title
1	Anna Nicole on the Brain
2	The Political Unconscious
3	The Brain’s Role in Family Values
4	The Brain’s Role in Political Ideologies
5	A New Consciousness
6	Traumatic Ideas: The War on Terror
7	Framing Reality: Privateering
8	Fear of Framing
9	Confronting Stereotypes: Sons of the Welfare Queen
10	Aim Above the Bad Apples
11	Cognitive Policy
12	Contested Concepts Everywhere
13	Exploring the Political Brain
14	The Problem of Self-interest
15	The Metaphors Defining Rational Action
16	Why Hawks Win
17	The Brain’s Language
18	Language in the New Enlightenment
	Afterword: What if it Works.
	George Lakoff , The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to your Brain and Politics. Penguin, (2008-2009)
Preface	“I call ‘progressive’ thought: empathy, responsibility (for oneself and others), and the ethic of excellence (making oneself and the world better). p. xiii
Basic point	"one of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives..." p. 27
Themes

George Lakoff pages Guide to The Political Mind

Themes developed from some chapters

• 1 is Temporal structure of the narrative.docx with added pages – this file is the longest set of notes
• 2 is Conservatives and progressives do not just have different goals and values, on pages 44-53
• 17 is The Brain's language.docx pages 231-232
• Neural binding
• The story of narrative quality of knowing.docx
• Temporal structure of the narrative
• The story of narrative quality of knowing.docx

Index to the files containing notes on the book’s substantive matters:
§ George Lakoff The Political Mind's essential argument
§ Conservatives and progressives have more different goals and values.
§ one of the reasons that politics lets us down.
§ Temporal structure of the narrative.docx
§ The Brain's language
§ The story of narrative quality of knowing.docx

Links:

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

William Greider, Come Home, America

Stephen J. Rose, Social Stratification in America

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee, 1941.

Water- private property or public good?

Social stratification and economic inequality

The ten lessons of Postman and Sontag

Overseas, or Foreign Press a sampling

USA print media, daily newspapers

economic recovery