>... to get an understanding about
>institutional cruelty [...] we had best look at our own institutions [!]
However, this would mean for you and Jay to look at North American
schools, and their various roots, some of them in Europe, some not.
There certainly are present-day scholars (like Foucault was one)
who are looking at their own European institutions, and the roots
of them -- surely outside Europe at some point ("Eve came out of
Africa at about 150,000 b.C.").
For me, sitting over here on a sunny evening, "European" is either
an empty catch-all for the sins of the enlightening and industriali-
zation, or it sounds like someone from abroad wanting to define how
we here should construe our past.
The above may read much sharper than I mean it. I just reckon that
this should be visibly on the desk...
Smiling: Arne.