Re: "Agenda"

[Robert Justin Lipkin]

In a message dated 7/9/2003 1:08:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I can see getting passionate about one agenda over/against others, but
why the flying feathers over the EXISTENCE of an agenda?

       I think the reason for "the flying feathers over the EXISTENCE of an agenda" is, forgive the _expression_, deeply jurisprudential or philosophical.  Those whose feathers fly over the existence of an agenda typically presuppose that theirs is an Archimedean, neutral vantage point, and all those who disagree are biased, partisan, or ideological.  Similarly, there are some who claim that their opponents, but only their opponents, put a favorable spin (is that redundant?) on facts and events, while they themselves depict reality precisely the way it is. Now I, for one, think there is such a thing as reality--see how much I know--but I'm not sure any one perspective has cornered the market on just what that reality is.

Bobby Lipkin
Widener University School of Law
Delaware