Good heavens, what a cliché! If you take that view, denying that societies have segments and interest groups, rich and poor, powerful and powerless, and everything in between and all about, then hoping for justice is pointless.
My suggestion is: No society has just one set of expectations. It has many, and some win out over others, and some rise to power and then decline. S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran Rampersad Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:32 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > There is no good metaphor to express this situation in all of its raw > power and destructiveness. Perhaps a non-metaphorical expression is needed. > Any society is the sum of it's expectations. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.your2ndplace.com Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ "Criticize by creating." Michelangelo "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
