Re: Progress & Diversity
Jesper Doepping (jesper who-is-at axp.psl.ku.dk)
Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:51:59 +0100
I also think that the discussion about progress and diversity is very
important. When I read Eugene Matusovs citations, I do however think that
the authors are discussing two different things. Moll and Smagorinske shows
how specific forms of thinking becomes the dominating way of understanding
the world, and that for some nation like South Africa it becomes necessary
to develop these dominant ways of thinking in the general population, "when
one wants to develop the society in a specific direction". Given that one
accepts these ways of developing our societies other ways of thinking
becomes problematic, because these other forms of thinking more or less
automatically exclude you from participation in forms of social practice
wich presuppose the dominant way of thinking. Due to this it becomes
necessary to consider how you can develop specific ways of thinking - or put
in an other way, it for me to see, becomes a practical and necessary task to
develop these ways.
However, this practical problem and necessarity becomes a problem
when we wants to understand thinking/activity processes in general, where we
can observe and see the hole diversity of ways we act and think. The
theoretical task is for me to see exactly to understand the diversity and
only to consider the dominant way as one possible way of acting and
thinking. If we pressupose that the dominant way of thinking is the only way
to think and that it is better, we also presuppose, that the industrial
socities way of organising and living is "the best way". thereby we very
easy come to silence and discredit the less privilleged way of acting,
thinking and organizing their way of living. Lurias perspective on other
peoples way of thinking gives perfectly sense if (and for me only if) the
old male soviet "middle class" is "the right way to think".
Jesper D=F6pping =20
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