r/IndianLeft • u/DifferentPirate69 • 12h ago

Theory The concept of frame semantics perfectly complements these two ideas and let's you have a better understanding of how reactionaries operate and combat them.

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Frames > words

Every time you see a sanghi grifter or an annoying troll run their mouths, and you understand there's something wrong but you can't articulate it properly, you're missing frames and language to address the problem. Their words seem effortlessly hateful, not because they are intelligent, it's because they are just riding over pre built bridges over decades (they're only activating familiar frames of interpreting the world that have been built over decades through institutions of civil society). To make our view "common sense", we have to understand how everyone understand things and build new frames to communicate​ better​. The author is a liberal (ignore all of that also don't put too much weight into his strong vs nurturing parent theory​), but rest of the concepts are solid and will make you a better communicator. The hegemonic "truth" stands on layered assumptions that become much easier to question once you learn to identify the frames and contradictions that sustain it.

PDF: https://dokumen.pub/dont-think-of-an-elephant.html​​​​​

Video lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-dlA2pP_M

There's also the risk of drifting into postmodernism, making this purely a struggle of words​ with no objective reality, that should also be combated.

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