From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 06:01:30 EST
Subject: Transposition


Ok, I want to transpose Rooney's question, which is a rather complex question.
(The question of how to distinguish "good" destratifications from "bad"
destratifications or maybe even how to distinguish a stratification from a
destratification (perhaps a destratification is only possible when applying
too strata to each other, like an empty square, but i'll leave that)

Here's my transposition :

If we take a dominator, imperialist culture like Europe, and its conquest of
Native America.
And we want to create a less dominating culture, we want to deimperialize.
Then we must identify what are imperial traits and what aren't.
But we ourselves are using potentially imperial tools to do so. So how do we
filter out the one from the other?
Many Europeans left a toxic culture in an attempt to escape. But they brought
with them seeds of the very imperialism they were escaping. So what were those
seeds? And how do we, living in a culture inherited from European imperialism,
distinguish between those traits which are imperialistic, and those which are
not? It becomes a "postcolonial" question....