Lit books:Final Blog

I read: The Political Mind
Stephanie G. Read: The Post-American World

       Responding to Stephanie G. Lit book The Post-American World says that her book recognizes, “Americas strengths and weaknesses” just as Lakoff does when he points out the weaknesses of the conservatives and the progressives. One of Lakoff’s main points is explaining that conservatives are much more persuasive because they relay their narratives with morals so that people can relate and understand their political frames better than the progressives. Understanding and communicating frames thus exemplifies why conservatives have been statistically doing better in office.

      Stephanie also says that, “Instead of doing things the way we’ve done them for a hundred years, we need to start being creative in the way we run our country.” This is Lakoff’s main goal of his book to get us to think creatively so that we can understand the way that our country is being ran cognitively as well as linguistically. Lakoff wants to express that language is the form that our brain understands and comprehends what one is saying and without being able to use our words carefully as the conservatives have been doing then we cannot advance politically. Another main point Lakoff repeats throughout his book is that it is beneficial to try and make the unconscious conscious and if we can try and start thinking outside of the box then one has then effectively used their 21st century mind.