Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > 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. > Really? I do not think so. Your second paragraph communicates what I meant in the same line. > 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. > Exactly. But in the end, it is society that decides. Individuals make choices based on their own expectations. All of this is encapsulated in 'Any society is the sum of it's expectations'. All the subsocietys, everything else - it all falls under that. Response to pollution law is the sum of the global society's expectations. Response to World Hunger is the sum of the global society's expectations. And so it goes.
You talk about parts of society in your first paragraph. But they are parts of a society. And their expectations are reflected in the sum. If you want to change the world, perhaps the expectations are what are most important to look at. Does a person in New York City have the same expectations as someone in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti? When you look at what people expect - and how high their expectations are, relatively speaking - I think you'll find a trend. > 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 > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > 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 > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > > -- 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 DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
