That gives me anadmiration for you for what you have acheived Ian. But as I
was saying academics hold power and like what you have no thrown back at me
ie your qualifications, your age your experience still means you want power
over others in what you say and do. No matter what it is you have moved
through this process of hegemony which doesnt equate to the large majority
of peoples in society. Most of us have no knowledge of worldly things and
want to just exist comfortability and without intimidating out of context
language words that have just been redeciphered to mean exactly the same
thing ...but makes one perosn more comfortable in one area and another less
comfortable because they have had to aspire to it (the words).
Rather than placing it back on a "dare I say it" level playing field, it is
used against people in society to shame them or harrass them into change.
Example if I say "there goes a nice a good lookin' sheila" someone is going
to get the back up and say "No Lance, there goes a good looking
woman"....its pretty simple I would have thought.
We are using subjective arguments all the time to deal with objectively
orientated problems ad issues.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] People of Red, Black, Yellow, White colours.
> Lance,
>
> But where do you think all those actions came from? Initially they were
> words and concepts in your mind.
>
> As for learning from books I would suggest you read my later post of this
> day. One of the things about the e-mail is that one often does not know
who
> one is speaking to. To fill you in, yes I am an academic: BArch (Melb); BA
> and Hons. (Politics, philosophy and Sociology), MA (Philosophy), the
latter
> two at Murdoch Uni.; Dip. Fine Art (Victorian National Gallery) and
> currently finishing a Ph.D. thesis entitled "The Bureaucratic Construction
> of Aboriginal Peoples.' I spent sixteen years working with Aboriginal
> Peoples in the Northern Territory and 12 months in Western Australia. My
> next birthday, which will be in the next couple of weeks, will be my
seventy
> first.
>
> I tell you all of this not to skite but to let you know where I am coming
> from.
>
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