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Indeed. But he also put it into a more sinister light. Lippmann meant it as a positive thing.
by rdtsc 10y ago
Indeed. But he also put it into a more sinister light. Lippmann meant it as a positive thing.
- dredmorbius 10y agoFair enough. Just giving the full context of the origin. I'd thrown quotes around the term to indicate some level of irony / metameaning: the term was intentionally borrowed and adapted, to make a point, and one which Chomsky's first readers would fairly likely have been aware of. Chomsky's use of the phrase has now almost certainly eclipsed Lippmann's, one of the occupational hazards of re-working this palimpsest of social consciousness we're all engaged in.