Re:... equality (and progress)

diane celia hodges (dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:11:02 -0800

At 12:41 PM 11/24/98, Konopak wrote:

briefly, progress, I always think of in terms of its associative terms,
such as digress, egress, regress, ingress -

proress seems, to me, to imply forwardness; and I'd reckon when folks like
us use the word we are idealizing our contributions, we all want to see a
fair and just world one day, so we work, sometimes, in contexts of desiring
something more prgoressive than regressive, or something along those lines.
diane - maybe I have oversimplified your point, in which, can you elaborate
more?

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