Hyman Blumenstock wrote:
[snip]
> MONEY has never been the answer to anything. It has been rightfully
> stated that "the love of money is the root of all evil."
[snip]
It has also been wisely observed, by Richard Nixon, that
while having money does not solve all problems, lack
of money *creates* lots of problems.
> The "bleakness" is the stupidity of those who insist upon having their
> collective heads up their collective asses and give full faith and
> credit to the Social Sciences.
Michel Foucault, in _Discipline and Punish_, succinctly
described the origin of self-called Social Sciences which
have as their aim not the understanding of the potential of
humanity (e.g., the lived experience of the persons *doing*
the scientizing), but the administration of human
beings, and their re-constitution as pseudo-*things*
(students, welfare recipients, prisoners, mental
patients, etc.).
*However*, there is a different kind of Social
Science (what the Germans call the: "Geisteswissenschaften" --
the sciences of spirit), of which Foucault's book is
itself an example, and which also includes the
work of persons like Erving Goffman, C. Wright Mills,
Edward Hall, Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, Clifford
Geertz, Sandor Ferenczi, Donald Winnicott, etc.
Let us not throw the baby out with the
bathwater, or, rather, to push this analogy,
let us save the baby from the polluted stream
into which capitalism (etc.) has dumped it.
Yours trying to help demystify the social world....
\brad mccormick
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Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but
Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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