41 - Gregg Hurwitz - Patterns in Politics and Storytelling
The Symbolic World
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I'm Not Picking on Republicans or Family Values but I Think It's a Rallying Cry to Say Keep the Government Out of My Uterus
I have a theory too that as as ideology becomes ossified into buzzwords and phrases from either side this is not me picking on Republicans or family values because I think this is equivalent. Things get get condensed into buzzwords that are news bites they lose authenticity and are much more often used for manipulative effectYeah you know so that's part of what the reaction we have to sort of cliches and buzzwords it's like people have real sentiments they figure out how to boil it down into something that's a neat catchy slogan then it gets used and even as opposed to it recognizes it as a sort of empty slogan.
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