{"id":24908,"date":"2011-09-11T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/george-lakoff-its-not-in-the-model-its-in-the\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T17:21:01","slug":"george-lakoff-its-not-in-the-model-its-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/george-lakoff-its-not-in-the-model-its-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>George Lakoff: It\u2019s not in the model. It\u2019s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are taught that they are bringing down Enlightenment values with them. They include separation of church and state\u2014the Enlightenment was about getting rid of the Pope and the king and having a civil society\u2014and reason. The idea is that reason is what defines people and makes them what they are, and therefore if you just give people the facts, the facts will set you free. People will reason to the correct conclusion. And that\u2019s the disaster. Because what it means is liberals always try to fight frames with facts, and that doesn\u2019t work. They negate things. They\u2019re anti-this and anti-that, instead of pro. And they define elections as going after self-interest. That doesn\u2019t win elections. You\u2019ve got to know what\u2019s most important for winning, and what\u2019s most important is values and identification and trust. It\u2019s that kind of thing that they\u2019re missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/exclusives\/?read=interview_lakoff\">The Believer &#8211; Interview with George Lakoff<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Lakoff: It\u2019s not in the model. It\u2019s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6tK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}