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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Jerry:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lakoff is not much
different. <font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>[WS:] Depends.
_<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Don’t think of an elephant</span></i>_
is not bad. My sister, who teaches linguistics in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>, tells me that he is some kind of small celebrity
in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Carl:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The "<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Third
Way</st1:address></st1:Street>," that's a positive example? I
thought that tired trope had <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>been stuffed, mounted and put on display at the
William J. Clinton <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Presidential Library and Museum. The blather of
a bygone age.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>[WS:] Do not
think of its contents. Think of an attempt to offer a positive
alternative to the ideology of the market instead of the usual blather of konstant
kvetching. You cannot win people’s hearts and minds by chronic
complaints ( I serve as a reminder of that on this list ;)), you need to give
them something positive that will “make sense” of the world for
them and at the same time give them hope for the future – just like the
market ideology does, only better. Doom saying is too depressing for most
people. Ranting may get people’s attention, but it is unlikely to
hold it for very long. People will not reject something they already have,
no matter how bad, unless they have a constructive and positive alternative
that looks better than what they now have (it called ‘endowment effect’
in economics.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>The recent pathetic
defeat of the Democratic party is a case in point. Kerry lost because all
he could offer was feeble Bush-bashing and nothing in its stead, or at least
nothing that looked much different than the Repug spin.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>PS. I
mentioned few possibilities for such a positive alternative on this list, but
there was no interest.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Wojtek<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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