FINAL THOUGHTS
“You just have to
make up your own damn mind
to either accept what I'm going to tell you,
or reject it.”
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
ASSIGN A NAME:
• A = Takete or Maluma?
• B = Takete or Maluma?
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
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SCHOOL
WORK
SEX
RELIGION
RACE
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
SEGUE:
• Cast a CAR commercial
• Who’s “signing & driving”
2013 LEXUS GS COMMERCIAL:
“because the ultimate expression of
power is control”
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
CASTING DIRECTOR:
• DJ for a party
• “A” student who aces SATs
• Mini-Mart owner
• 2 Cops
▫ Over-the-hill, fat, balding
▫ Young, trim, buff
• Male Model for athletic clothes
• Maid
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
PAULA DEAN:
• Which is worse to say?
▫ N-word or B-word
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
DON’T LET
THEM PUT
YOU IN A BOX
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
DON’T PUT
YOURSELF
IN A BOX
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
SELF-TALK:
• How do you
• talk to you?
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
• LANGUAGE affects THOUGHTS
• THOUGHTS affect LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
• WORDS = POWER
control the language
control the people
control yourself
LANGUAGE & THOUGHTS
FINAL QUESTION:
• NATURE vs. NURTURE
• Where does FREE WILL fit in?
Don’t believe
everything
you think.
• The surest way to show one’s
ignorance
• Is to claim one’s
sapience.