On Jan 18, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Although I tried to strike a balance and acknowledge
> the guy's personal "contributions" to his predicament,
> but also look at the broader systemic ramifications of
> it, I was accused of turning everything into politics
> and not seeing a personal aspect of it. The
> conversation ended on a less than friendly note.
Can't you just read this as two complementary perspectives? The systemic stuff you're talking about has to operate on and through actual people. So the "personal" contributions are just specific instances of systemic forces. And we're so programmed with the norms of our society that the systemic aspect is perpetuated by the sum of millions of individual experiences.
Doug