Before you go into didactics/semantics etc,
the reality of the situation and
the options of
effective action should be assessed.
There is such a physical/social reality, whether the
fancy relativist/postmodernist slogans
of the day dismiss it or not.
Eva
>
> > It is not views but processes that are diametrically and
> > un-balancably (oops) opposed.
>
> <snip>
>
> I guess I slipped into meta-mode, (i.e. "views" refers to how one might perceive or,
> perhaps more accurately, conceive of "processes") hence is part of the meta-language
> in which one might talk _about_ processes. Yet it may be that how people
> _conceive_ processes may be more important than the actual processes in explaining
> human behaviour.
>
> This lapse raises another issue pertaining to creativity which is a key requirement
> when one attempts to devise new strategies of wealth allocation. It concerns the
> virtue of imprecise language.
>
> E. Carpenter in his book "They Became What They Beheld" made the following
> observation:
>
> "I recently came across the following rules of communication, posted in a School of
> Journalism:
>
> Know your audience and address yourself directly to it.
> Know what you want to say and say it clearly and fully.
> Reach the maximum audience by utilizing existing channels.
>
> "Whatever sense this may have made in a world of print, it makes no sense today. In
> fact, the reverse of each rule applies.
>
> "If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premlses
> that unite the audience ... But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they
> create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is
> significant, others hear and are affected.
>
> "The trouble with knowing what to say and saying it clearly and fully, is that clear
> speaking is generally obsolete thinking. Clear statement is like an art object: it
> is the after-life of the process which called it into being. The process itself is
> the significant step and, especially at the beginning, is often incomplete and
> uncertain. Columbus' maps were vague and sketchy, but showed the right continent.
>
> "The problem with full statement is that it doesn't involve: it leaves no room for
> participation; it's addressed to consumer, not co-producer."
>
> --
> http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/
>
>
