Well said. So well, in fact, that it convinced me to become a paid subscriber. I particularly like "create new words or descriptors with promiscuous energy." It seems to me that is precisely the intellectual work that small-scale studies that "privilege contingency and change in their narratives" aim to do. Your list is the antidote to the foolish consistency powering so much of the debate over the terms we use to have debates when we should be directing our energy toward finding concrete steps to change the minds of persuadable voters, ways to introduce the possibility of change to those too cynical to let themselves do the one thing that could make a difference in the outcome or too busy to notice the stakes.
Well said. So well, in fact, that it convinced me to become a paid subscriber. I particularly like "create new words or descriptors with promiscuous energy." It seems to me that is precisely the intellectual work that small-scale studies that "privilege contingency and change in their narratives" aim to do. Your list is the antidote to the foolish consistency powering so much of the debate over the terms we use to have debates when we should be directing our energy toward finding concrete steps to change the minds of persuadable voters, ways to introduce the possibility of change to those too cynical to let themselves do the one thing that could make a difference in the outcome or too busy to notice the stakes.
It is that bad already. It’s soon to get worse. I’m sick of all the ostriches.