>Rather than responding to the arms and armies aspect of this moment, we
>should try working the another side of the problem: access to knowledge.
>
>imho, from a lurker,
thanks linda - i admire your view, you are right, of course, and products
of knowledge without accountability for what that knowledge implies or
infers or incites is troublesome...
personally, right now, today, i am trying to understand what is happening.
so much information is coming forward now, so much of is angry, and so
much has to be interpreted
through press conferences and journalism,
i feel overwhelmed with what is happening, as i say, and the possibility
of determining "what" must be done
is way beyond my grasp -
i am working hard to make sense, now... my excess here is, i'm sure, an
outcome of this effort.
i appreciate your perspective a lot ...
as you note, the civilian outrage is terribly worrisome as racism and
ignorance replace the possibility of
so much unknowns...
diane
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>I don't post on XMCA; I lurk, but you have all enticed me out of the
>shadows
>on this issue. This is a bit of a ramble too.
>
>First, hordes of Americans are not about to go on a rampage or terror
>against Arab-American or Islamic neighbors. Yeah, some idiots will, most
>likely cause they lack another channel such as XMCA to discuss their
>feelings. And frankly, if my daughter or son or husband or mother were in
>the WTC, I might be inclined to do that too. Well, no, of course not. The
>thing I find most disturbing in the US and Western response is the rise of
>'the other' ... lots of West vs. Middle East... lots of good vs. evil...
>lots of nationalism. I have not put a flag outside my house and don't want
>to do so, except on the 4th of July as a decoration. I find the whole
>notion
>of flag waving at this time appalling.
>
>Pardon my escape from AT, but I think that, as a grand community of
>practice, Capitalism misunderstands the consequences of hoarding knowledge
>(which I take to be the coin of the realm) and instead shares only 'help,'
>often in the form of market products. (jees, I hope it only
>misunderstands
>and doesn't come from a deeper meaner intentionality.) The oppression of
>the West is exactly this, imho. We don't export knowledge, just products
>of
>knowledge. This is the marginalization that is keeping folks down (and
>it's
>happening inside the West as well as outside it.) It's cruelly ironic,
>indicative, and sad that in order to hijack a plane as pilots, the
>terrorists had to come reside in the US for several months while they
>attended pilot school here in the USA. How they must have loathed that.
>
>IMHO, assuming he is working for 'his people,' Bin Laden would do better
>to
>hijack corporate scientists and use his millions to set up pharmaceutical
>companies and agribusiness owned and operated by nationals to solve local
>crises in food and medical production based on knowledge bought or
>stolen/liberated from the West. While empowering locally, such
>enterprises
>could also export. India's doing considerably better for its self and a
>growing number of its citizens by supporting a booming programming and
>software development infrastructure which draws outside money.
>
>Rather than responding to the arms and armies aspect of this moment, we
>should try working the another side of the problem: access to knowledge.
>
>imho, from a lurker,
>
>Linda P.
>
>
>
>
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"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
(...life clings to me...)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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