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  Lawyering, rhetoric, throwing pepper in your eyes.

  You write; "...every issue is defined by two shrill, partisan camps..." Amen, brother.
  Isn't this an excellent definition and description of the lawyers' dog and pony show - known professionally as the adversarial system?

  You write; "A position's truth value has nothing to do with...its adherents' rhetorical acumen."
  Bingo! The pretentious lawyer blather has EVERYTHING to do with rhetorical subterfuge. It's the ONLY legal game in town, too.

  O. J. Simpson (mack-not-the-knife) spends most of his days lofting to the green and getting his balls in the hole.  On Bucking conventional wisdom: the new black posted 3 years, 5 months ago 2 Responses

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  Changing minds and hearts too, I guess.

  Nobody has advanced a program of "offsets," trading schemes, or credits for COMPOUND INTEREST. Too tough, unmentionable, or impossible?

  What "drives" the continually expanding economy, you ask? It's all about linguistics and words - IDEAS AND VALUES. Right? So, we'll just change the silly and stupid ideas about investors' money growing and growing forever. SHAZAM!

  I'll  collar my local bankers, investors, and finance folks tomorrow and clue them in. They will promptly change their values and adopt new ethics - yes ethics. Ethics is like values but deeper! New ethics will replace the old stupid ethics. We know the right ideas, values, and ethics.

  Doan you worry. On Tankage posted 3 years, 5 months ago 2 Responses

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  Grazi

  Your article is very well written with the imperative and powerful content needed for survival. Whatever claims are made about any possible need for polishing your piece pale into insignificance when one focuses on what is absolutely on point. It is terrific article.

  I passionately hope that you will re-evaluate your positive position about Daniel Abassi's Yalie Collaborative and its pompous doubltalking propaganda machine for adaptation thorough values management. Ditto, for the almost identical  pseudo-journalism in framing and reframing disguise by the Frameworks hucksters for hyping values and technofixes.

  I apologize and retract my claim that your credibility is on the line. On TomPaine op-ed: 'The Alt Fuels Distraction' posted 3 years, 5 months ago 17 Responses

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  We are being framed alright, and then some...

  Those Framewonkers communications consultants are real slick. They do "some research" and "find" all kinds of powerful determinants of human behavior. Their wordsmithing speaks for itself, and Grist apparently bought the whole box of linguistic treachery.

  In the first box above;
  

  1. "It found that the more people are bombarded..."
     
  2. "Frameworks found that depicting..."
     
  3. "Frameworks found that stressing..."

  How did these communications geniuses "find" all these powerful determinants of human behavior and the failure to communicate? It's simple; "Linguistic analysis of elite discourse..." whatever that is. No details of this informative research is given. We doan need no stinking epistemology or operationalism. We just know it, and we want you to get it.
  Framewonkers also "found" that the "greenhouse gas effect" "did not work for most people." No, no, no, global warming urgency and scary weather frames. It's all about values, and man oh man  can we manage those values. It's all about management, too.

  Just read the metaphysical and blatently mentalistic statement above. "Frameworks found that depicting global warming as being about scary weather evokes the weather frame which sets up a highly pernicious set (set theory?) of reactions ..." What a convoluted causal chain! Maybe they should call themselves the Framewonkers Institute for literary psychiatry.

  Their esoteric and secret research is so determinative, moreover, that powerful conclusions and recommendations are stated. We know the human mind (whatever that is?) and we know what to do. New thinking? Smartness? Prudence? Caring? What abject literary blather!

  Why would anybody respect such obvious and outright nonsense? These guys are most probilistically whores on the take, and their delivery is as muddled as their foul message. If you think that these bastards are trying to help, I suggest that they are yuppie double agents giving great powerpoint propaganda for the Man.
  The professed wizardy of Framewonkers is designed to keep you bewildered and mystified about the clearly documented causal chains of GLOBAL WARMING - the most important event in human history.
  Yes Dave, it definitely dovetails perfectly with the adaptationism of the Yalie's Climate Change masquerade. Your credibility is on the line, Sir.On Framing climate change posted 3 years, 5 months ago 20 Responses

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  Are you kidding?

  I read the whole thing, and I can't believe that anybody who is not a doubletalking corporate agent would fall for such obvious yuppie shuck and jive. What a preposterous laffer! These Yalie suits are the enemy.On Americans and Climate Change: Intro and executive summary posted 3 years, 5 months ago 11 Responses