Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:25:31 +0000 From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk> Subject: two solutions - a question all "In today's circumstances of unprecedented intermixing of foriegners on earth, two extrme solutions are taking shape. Either we are heading towards global united states of all former nation-states: a process that could be contemplated in the long run and that the economic, scientific and media-based development allows one to assume. Or else the humanistic cosmopolitism shows itself to be utopic, and particularistic aspirations force one to believe that small political sets are the optimal structures to insure the survival of humanity...." (Kristeva ) often on this list I get the feeling that the latter more post-modern approach contains the fears and theoretical directions that people imagine as being correct... as being the reasonable way out of the mire that constitutes our society. Yet if you accept the latter are you not also losing the ability to argue for "rights" ? s
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