Thanks Marta for your thoughtful reply to all my thoughts. The more I hear what you have to say, the more I respect it. You've really thought a lot and it shows! Your comment that whenever the talk about access gets into petty costs:
(Marta) Thursday June 18 "Practically speaking, when "problems" of access arise, I have found them to be uncomfortably linked to the question of where is the money? - the money for an interpreter, the money for a ramp, making material available on cassette for the blind, a note taker for someone who is cognitively disabled, etc. Then questions start, do we really want to spend our precious money on these items? Expensive needs get put at the back of the bus. A hierarchy develops where the disabled end up at the bottom, considered less important to attend a meeting.
(Doyle) Well said. It is an example to me about how the US global policy of austerity creaps into all the nooks and crannys of society. It is too abstract (unfortunately) in our society what it truly means as you say to be "interdependent". I mean simply that people can't grasp from ordinary experience what is being attacked when the cost of a ramp to a meeting, or plain finding accessible places to "accomodate" is not considered because of the dollars.
(Doyle) I also liked your reply concerning Carrol. Practical ways of thinking about what is obviously disability issues for her. Right on! I'm learning as I go. To me this is exciting stuff. There is so much there to learn. It gives one such an insight into "socialism", and the real issues that make a Marxist way of thinking helpful, and powerful. Your way of replying was very respectful. Thanks. Doyle Saylor