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Is a fancy-pants neologism from political theorists about how the world supposedly works these days. From 'noos', meaning knowledge. One thing I find funny, giv
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Is a fancy-pants neologism from political theorists about how the world supposedly works these days. From 'noos', meaning knowledge. One thing I find funny, given the construction, is that nobody outside of political theory seemingly knows about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
- kartan 7y agoNow we know. Thanks for sharing.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoIt's a globalist way to say "noose" and imply slavery of the masses, and still have an "excoos"
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoHow do you pronounce it?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoGnupolitik.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoDo you have a source? I can't find one, but have seen at least one instance with an umlaut over the second o, suggesting something more akin to "new-o-politik" to my mind, which would fit somewhat with long o ancient Greek stuff I remember from taking Greek in college long ago and far away.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoVery sorry, was making a silly joke, not providing useful pronounciation.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThank you.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoIs one of those words I have almost never heard pronounced. And on the rare occaisions I have, it is by people who are similarly unsure of the correct pronunciation.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoBut you probably have heard similar words, such as nootropics. That word gets pronounced "new-o-tropics." Classic Greek "long o" is literally a long o. The sound is drawn out at length. So it seems likely to me this is pronounced similar to nootropics.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoMy personal guess, but not an informed one, was to just rhyme it with 'moo'.
- dane-pgp 7y agoTo be fair, asking for the "source" for "Gnupolitik" (GNU/Politik?) is a great reply, even if you didn't get the joke.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI still don't get the joke. Feel free to explain if you are feeling so inclined.
- dane-pgp 7y agoThe joke I'm imagining is based on a mental association I have with the acronym "GNU", which is used by The GNU Project: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html The group behind that project support the idea that people who use software should have access to the source code of that software, and therefore requesting the "source" is an action they would encourage. They are also responsible for individual pieces of software with names like "GNU Emacs": https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Hopefully this information proves interesting and useful to someone, and I haven't merely made a silly joke less funny by explaining it.
- coldtea 7y agonew-o-politic, or no-o(h)-politic both would be good.
- azernik 7y agoNu-oh-politics. (Snobs will spell it noöpolitics)
- coldtea 7y agono-oh-politics (or no-os-politics). Like the term of yore, no-o-sphere (the sphere of the mind/intellect) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
- kumarharsh 7y agoI thought it was a fancy contraction for 'no-op politics' where at the end of your term, the org/country would stay where it was before you :-)
- coldtea 7y ago>From 'noos', meaning knowledge. Etymologically it means intelligence (and used literally, it meant "mind").
- inflatableDodo 7y agoTrue, however Arquilla and Ronfeldt, who coined it while at RAND in the late '90s, defined it as 'the network based geopolitics of knowledge'.