Re: GPA's, ranking-culture

Dr. PedroR. Portes (prport01 who-is-at athena.louisville.edu)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:35:30 -0400

At 12:25 AM 6/4/99 +1000, you wrote:
>
>How do we create a discourse of equality, of assuming that we are equal
>(without being interchangeable or equivalent) in each others' eyes? This is
>an especially paradoxical question in a society built upon the logic of
>homogenous exchanges.
>
Phil

Now I am musing, how DID we create such a discourse? That must provide a
big part of the answer.
Looking back it seems the notion affected the masses before Greece to the
French Revolution more recently, and the discourse just evolves.

Could you elaborate on what you mean the "logic of homogeneous exchanges"?
Is that like the Greeks or USA founding fathers whose discourse was carried
in slave/caste contexts, us/them, or our rights and theirs??
pedro
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