Ed Weick wrote:
>
> > >My point was a different one -- that we shouldn't romanticise the customs
> >of the past. Record them, enjoy them in hindsight, investigate why they
> >arose -- but don't accord them any special sanctity. They were merely
> >decorations that grew around the basic technology of the time. >
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> I don't disagree, though you do say it a little more bluntly than I would.
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Pesonal note: *I* like the pointed way Ed put it. Why?
Because my personal experience of "customs of the past"
has been chronically oppressive: The factical ethnic
matrix (a.k.a.: "Land of the free and home of the brave",
etc.) into which I was born without any notion
that things could be otherwise was for me, in retrospect,
at best a kind of internment camp. I have no idea
what Ed's reasons for being pointed here are, but
my aim is to drive a stake through the thing's core
(the word "heart" has wrong connotations here).
I don't think this makes my position *wrong*, but
I also speculate that, had I grown up in a social
milieu which nurtured my spirit, I would cathect
these issues far less strongly.
Curiously, earlier today, before I read this posting, I
revised a little mini-essay that is elevant to this topic:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/sthoughts.html#reduction
"Never again!"
\bad mccormick
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