"Wallace Wright" <wwright@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:51:44PM +0100, Wallace Wright wrote:
>> > I think it is wonderful that someone is imagining
>> > some form of "continuing harmony" or "coexistence".
>> >
>> > Your words can be last...
....
>> So much for intelligent discussion of gender bias and
>> its historical antecedents.
>
> Synchronicity or random chance, you decide. This from
> /usr/games/fortune today:
>
> [From an announcement of a congress of the International
> Ontopsychology Association, in Rome]:
>
> The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new
> research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology,
> maintains that social modes do not spring from
> dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer
> goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic
> latencies capillarized in millions of individuals in
> system functions which, once they have reached the
> event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic
> phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype
> protagonist or duty marionette (general, president,
> political party, etc.) to consummate the act of social
> schizophrenia in mass genocide.
>
> It's even better than what I wrote.
<QUOTE>
I would never use 'universal' or 'eternal' to describe the
situation of gender inequality. That pronouncement is much more
characteristic of wishful thinking among rabid ideologues.
Practical gender neutrality is what I would call a goal of
maturation, and today requires a non-superficial understanding of
the biases intrinsic to contem****ary popular cultures. Possibly
the transhumans and extropians better approach this ideal, but
most of what I read of their literature is focused on the
technical enterprise of getting out of this local energy minimum
by way of scientific and engineering advance.
<END QUOTE>
No, what you said before held hope...
David A. Smith
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