----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Journalists as journalists and academics as academics (perhaps
> bureaucrats also) have the habit of looking at the world from some
> position of vantage _outside_ it. This makes their perceptions (or more
> exactly, the questions they hassle over) fairly irrelevant at best to
> political thinking.
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The idea of there being an outside of the world from which to attain a metaperspectival [ad]vantage is, of course, utter nonsense.
Also, a reflexivity alert is in order.
Ian