Re: AUT: re Passe Montagne doc

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At 23.09 30/03/98 -0600, Christopher D. wrote:
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>According to Nancy Farris' *Maya Society Under Colonial Rule* the ancient
>Maya's "entire view of time was based on the conviction that each of their
>twenty-year katun periods repeated itself with the same recurring events at
>256-year intervals". It must be enormously comforting to have such a
>certain knowledge of how things will turn out that you don't even feel
>compelled to offer evidence to support your assertions. The problem, of
>course, is that one can only maintain that sort of certainty by completely
>denying the agency of the people involved. If you want to piss out the
>ember of hope generated by the Zapatistas you'll have to come up with
>something a little more substantive. Until then ...
>
>kisses
>christopher day

I can't understand. It was implicit in my short comment tha the "agency of
the people involved" is always different and I suggested to go back to the
same sort of comments during the Vietnam war (those are the "evidence").
But nobody wants  piss out your hope. Continue to hope. Hope is the last
thing to die (we say in Italy, don't you?)
RG
m.jr
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