This new Chronicle, which elaborates on some of the ideas in the preceding (as well as in “Originary Narrative” and The End of Culture) is now available at http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw346.htm.
-eric gans
This new Chronicle, which elaborates on some of the ideas in the preceding (as well as in “Originary Narrative” and The End of Culture) is now available at http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw346.htm.
-eric gans
Chronicle 345, which explores the relationship between the varieties of firstness, is now available.
-eric gans
A headline in my local newspaper today proclaimed “Study finds storm [Katrina] hit blacks harder.”
Is anyone else getting tired of these studies, which seem to be appearing in our news now on a daily basis, that not everybody in America ends up in the same place? A local “scandal” in Utah is that hispanic children in the public schools do not do as well on achievement tests as whites. Public pressure forced the governor to appoint a commission to investigate. Yet there has been no evidence produced of discrimination in the school system, nor even any allegations of discrimination. Aren’t individuals responsible for themselves anymore? I fear we’re going to end up like the futuristic society described in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s stories, in which the smart, talented, and “advantaged” people are forced to wear various torture devices in order to “level the playing field.”
All we can do is make and enforce the laws against discrimination; after that individuals have to take responsibility for their own outcomes.
~Q
Chronicle 344 is a continuation of a running dialogue with Adam Katz concerning GA’s relationship to politics. A future Chronicle will deal with the question of freedom.
-eric gans
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