The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
From Noam Chomsky
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
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