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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> > 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.
I have no real idea about people pretending to be "outside the world", but there is such a thing as gaining perspective from distance and/or detachment. Otherwise, nobody would ever see a shrink, or even ask a friend for advice in an area that the friend is not an 'expert'.
> Also, a reflexivity alert is in order.
All Papal edicts should be accompanied by them. By law.
-- no Onan