[xmca] Criticism from inside to ground cultural critique in comparative context

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Andy writes and Achilles responds in later note:

there is always some possibility for people within a culture to see what
things are like in the outside world, no matter how much a government tries
to isolate people, and that there will always be some people in a culture
who can base themselves on what they see outside to criticize their "own"
culture. This possibility creates a valid ground for social criticism.


This explicit grounding, while vulnerable to accusations of treason strikes
me as one way to ground critique. It is part of wider
dialogue/collusion/collaboration to identify at least cultural
contingent critiques.

mike
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