Is that why it is politically so easy and comfortable and expectable to
villify and demonize youth?
Especially in marginalized communities? Because they express their genius
in ways that rebut/rebuff
the presumptions of legitimacy of dominant/"majority" authorized
behaviors/practices? Is that why sports, for example, has become defacto
the provinces of marginalized?
A TERRIFIC article in this week's The Nation--a leftish US weekly--by
Gerald Early takes up some cultural (i.e., racial) implications of the
relation of certain aspects and attributes of mind to sport _qua_activity,
and of what it may be that sport is (either?/both?) a sign and a tool. You
can read it at http://www.TheNation.com--for some reason I can't get it to
hotlink and save you the step.
I'd be interested in the reaction of others in the group to
>Vygotsky was critiquing the
>attitude of looking at those children as having moral problems. He
>argued instead that these were the children who were gifted and would be our
>future leaders.
Is there any relation between that and the ways in which certain elements
of contemporary commercial culture persist in attributing--while at least
tacitly approving--moral decrepitude to athletes, and the ways they (jocks)
are held to much different standards than merer mortals? The role-model
syndrome? The responsibility of the public performance? Early's article
stimulates my curiousity on this.
cheers
konopak
"A solipsist is never alone."