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What was important to the elites was thus inaccessible to the masses. The most “important” texts were understood by only a few.
People often forget this because they think everyone writes in the same language they speak
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AMVs are (typically) created by remixing images from these cartoons with a music track or the track from a movie trailer
I'd never heard of AMVs until this passage, would love some recommendations for good ones.
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That romance in turn allows the metaphor to spread into other social or political conflicts. We wage war on drugs, on poverty, on terrorism, on racism. There is a war on government waste, a war on crime, a war on spam, a war on guns, and a war on cancer. As Professors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson describe, each of these “wars” produces a “network of entailments.” Those entailments then frame and drive social policy. As they put it, in discussing President Carter’s “moral equivalent of war” speech:
We all know what war means, but these wars have no end because there is no way to know when the war is definitively over.
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Of course, no one was talking about using guns to fight carbon. Or even carbon polluters. Yet, for obvious reasons, the associations with war in Germany are strongly negative
Why can't we just say World War II?
