Tag: narrative strategy
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Seek Common Ground (Beautiful Trouble – Essay 4)
When disagreeing with someone else’s ideas, it can be tempting to engage in narrative attack; to make a direct attack on one narrative from the vantage point, and in the language, of your opposing narrative. For example, when someone wraps climate change-denial views in the rhetoric of creationist beliefs, it is tempting to directly attack…
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Immigration: anatomy of a progressive narrative | Evolutionary logic of collective action pt.IV
Last week during a debate with Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at George Washington University, Governor Howard Dean offered a compelling narrative about immigration in the United States: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBk0PuOpTIs&w=480&h=390] I don’t believe we ought to demonize people who are trying to do the best they can… How many people in this hall have…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 