File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9804, message 75


From: Zona Sur <ZonaSur-AT-aol.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:56:19 EDT
Subject: Is US poco?


Lisa--

thanks for the cautious words.  Though I take it personally as well as
'publically', for lack of a more graceful way of stating it, I think the
freeforall debate can prove interesting and give a bit more gravity to our
sometimes arid scholasticism (or at least, that's what, somewhat rightly,
scholars  have been accused of being.)  In the era of a global
economy--domination of the many by the few--it seems to me that it serves us
well to know WHO these few are and where they came from, even HOW they got
here.  La historia oficial does not tell us that, so that leaves literature,
orature, many arts--all the things deemed useless by the globally hungry.   (I
believe it also includes scholars--I know of at least one country where the
sleek, psuedo hipsters of globalization and privatization  have demanded that
an entire country change its educational system to 'fit' the outsiders
assessment of what is relenvant to them economically.  That includes getting
rid of humanities courses wholesale and teaching things like how to be a tour
guide...)  Way  back in the dark ages of femininism, I seem to remember the
slogan, 'the personal is political'--of course, it got very distorted and
became an instrument of enforcing some political correctness in the lefty
sense of the word, but it also pointed out the very real dilemma in espousing
beautiful theories but practicing that same old BS.  

Seems to me we must muddle on, and not crucify each other even in our spats,
but try to figure this out.  There is--old-fashioned word again--a paradigm in
all this, I'm sure.  Or at least a conference.

Best,

B. Mills 


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