Várzea Grande Glenn Greenwald has a cynical piece on Obama’s corporate-shill economic team, well worth reading in full – as they say, Wall Street spent more to elect Barack Obama than any previous candidate – but particularly valuable is Greenwald’s little gem of advice for interpreting propaganda: Geithner wasn’t chosen and hasn’t remained despite being “associated with the deregulatory […]
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Greenwald on Propaganda.
22-Sep-11But / And
14-Nov-08The individual personality reveals itself in the tiniest of things. One of the most interesting is the word “but.” Like all the adversatives (however, although, nonetheless, etc.) it implies some kind of opposition. It is most interesting to see where people think there is an opposition, and wherever they use the word “but” you may […]
Swift Observation on Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions
29-May-20Lurasidone us In the universe, there are no opposites and no contraries; adversatives are all a matter of interpretation, the operation of brain in the world. They are eloquent insofar as the interpreters share a common worldview, which links together certain traits. They are hence useful for interpreting a person’s worldview. Two different writers might write: “She […]