reparations & exploitation

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 12 12:31:35 PST 2001


The German is Idiotismus, but the real reference is to Attic Greek, where it means isolation, nonparticipation in the community. In Aristotle, an idiot is someone who fails to patyicipoate in the life of the polis. --jks


>At 01:17 PM 3/12/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>kelley wrote:
>>
>>>calling it combat pay is simply reproducing the very prejudices that make
>>>it combat pay in the first place. the lack of physicians in rural areas
>>>has everything to do with prestige, status, biases reinforced in medical
>>>training, etc. . as just one example.
>>
>>Don't forget the idiocy of rural life!
>>
>>Doug
>
>idiote, in the greek sense--that is what i've always argued! but i don't
>really know and i've been meaning to ask for three years now. those more
>familiar with german -- has it been the case that his term here was
>translated badly. i'm guessing others have had this conversation before.
>
>kelley
>

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