Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:05:37 EST
Subject: Re:  THE Metanarrative


Hugh wrote:
<<<Not exactly a global village, but a very exclusive neighborhood. 
Fortune Magazine reported the top ten global companies harvested $1.3
trillion
or about $200 per capita if related to the world population of 6
billion.>>>

Don Smith Replies:
Why isn't the hegemony that convinces the average person that corporitist
oppression is in their own best interest considered a metanarrative? Why
doesn't Lyotard consider the claim that system performance must be the guiding
principle of a democratic society a metanarrative? He goes to some length
explaining how it operates. I'm afraid I'm confused as to Lyotard's position
on perfomativity.  

Don