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The Dumbing-Down of Political Language - Susan Jacoby
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Tags: 2008 campaign candidates culture foratv intelligence language mass political presidential primaries public speech
Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 12, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Author: ForaTv
Length: 04:26
Rating: 4.89
Views: 1048
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/24/Susa...
Author Susan Jacoby criticizes the degeneration of language within politics and the use of "folks" in the 2008 United States primary debates.
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Writer and scholar Susan Jacoby is sure to raise some hackles with The Age of American Unreason - an unsparing jeremiad that attacks the dumbing-down of the American public. Jacoby's area of study is US intellectual history, though she worries that the field is becoming a moot point in the face of our country's pervasive "infotainment" complex.
As politics get folded into entertainment, she argues, so too does morality become indistinguishable from consumerism. Though hardly the first to bemoan the pitfalls of mass culture, Jacoby's portrait of American anti-intellectualism is especially germane in the middle of an election year - Booksmith
Susan Jacoby is the author of The Age of American Unreason. She began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post, and has been a contributor to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers for more than 25 years on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union and Russian literature.
Jacoby has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2001-2002, she was named a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Jacoby's other books include Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004); Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984, and Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past.
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Video Comments
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colibri1 (August 17, 2008 at 3:31 am) |
| I love that she dates the point at which politicians started using patronizing language as being 1980. So that was another of the deleterious changes that Reagan brought in. He was the first president known for being explicitly anti-intellectual. And now we're all supposed to worship him. |
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deernardz (July 27, 2008 at 1:19 pm) |
| Wow, this lady hits the nail right on the head. |
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ls1z28chris (July 7, 2008 at 2:38 am) |
| I think that the point regarding politicians pandering to the lowest common denominator is completely valid. In spite of the fact that I use the word "folk" or "folks" sometimes frequently in everyday conversation, I prefer those campaigning for my votes to speak to me with some dignity and formality. The problem is that a lot of voters equate speaking intelligently with an extended vocabulary with condescension and pretentiousness. |
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Moionfire (June 16, 2008 at 2:02 am) |
| Intellectualism and "elitism" are not the same thing...
What we need is intellectualism-those who like to think and are logical/rational...
We do not need "elitist" are basically people who want to keep the general public unaware from information, wealth, capital and culture... |
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historywillabsolve (June 14, 2008 at 5:13 pm) |
| i personally think we need more "elitism" in america. the stupid mob likes to drag everyone down to their level. |
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DBCOOPER888 (June 14, 2008 at 12:50 pm) |
| Grew up poor with a single mother at that* |
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DBCOOPER888 (June 14, 2008 at 12:46 pm) |
| A black man who grew in poor with a single mother. |
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super8hogan (June 13, 2008 at 8:48 am) |
| sorry sugarpuddin88, I had to google too many words to understand what you said LOL |
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Blue387 (June 13, 2008 at 6:27 am) |
| Only in America can a black man be considered an elitist. |
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mavaddat (June 13, 2008 at 6:19 am) |
| It's true. The largest part of American voters (though not the majority!) are complete idiots. |
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