Re: [xmca] Polls are closed: Manfred Holodynsk's article is choice

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

So what can be meant by "societal meaning" then, Helena? Material 
objects (such as the bank building, and the various human bodies 
involved, and books and ledgers, coins, etc.) are "societal" in the 
sense of being universal. But "meaning" implies to me an act of 
"interpretation" of material objects, something particular. And if the 
Politburo is not there to ascribe the one societal meaning to material 
things/processes/events, what on Earth can "societal meaning" be?

Andy

Helena Worthen wrote:
> ...
>
> Before this gets too long, I'll just say that I agree, there is no
> omniscient observer to tell us what the "societal meaning" of something
> is. In fact, if Manfred and I were standing in line at that bank where
> this happened, it might be fun for us to compare our "personal sense" of
> what we saw.
>
> Helena 
>   


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