Sunday, December 6, 2009

Challenging the symbollic order

@ Priyanka
It is difficult to decide and take on established symbollic order by agents from outside the concerning society. their are two major reasons for it:
1. If a foreign agent brings about reform or revision without the consent of the people affected or even with their consent, without their complete trust in the transformation, the endeavour is bound to fail sooner than later.
2. Even if the endeavour succeeds initially, it will only succeed on a superficial level. It will fail in spirits as the basic fabric shall remain the same.
The best we can do is to impart skills to the affected group such as they can sort and decide their own way of bringing about the change.
What those skills would be and how we would keep our own subjectivity out of them is another important point of debate.
this is what i think.

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