>Messsage du 25/11/2000 19:14
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>Objet : Re: Taking the cure
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> if after re-reading the threads, you are not convinced that i've given any
> examples, i'll provide one or some, as time allows.
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> chris niles
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> Okay. Like I said, consider me a dumb white guy and explain it.
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> See, what I am trying to point out, is if you mythologize what is
> concretely a human relation,
that's already been done with whiteness, in a rather large number of ways over the generations.
then you end up removing it from the
> arena of concrete solutions.
human beings mythologize human relations all the time but in fact, those mythologies end up structuring our daily relations in very concrete, often yucky, ways. can you think of a mythology where this has not happened?
It becomes part of a cultural or
> quasi-religious phenomenon that is completely delimited.
when has religious phenomenah, quasi or not, ever been completley delimited? i can't think of any. we all need to live through productive, meaningful constructs that help us understand who we are, when we are and where we are, so the urge toward a certain religiosity, if not religion, is understandable. but religion has always had a deep affect, directly or indirectly on larger social structures.
In a sense I
> don't have any problem with this form, but it doesn't go to the
> question of how to change it.
so why are we having this discussion?
chris niles
the new abolitionist
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> Chuck Grimes
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