Re: Public/Private

[Kenneth Campbell <kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian wrote, quite poetically:

>Over time these become the 'sedimented' practices of our
>society and we take them for granted in the manner in which
>fish take water for granted. I think we're at a point where
>we need to think about how dirty the water in our fish tank
>is.

How can one get enough distance to see that?

If you can "pull back" enough to see the "thing" as a whole... you see
that "sediment." You see the water in which you swim.

Marx used Hegel to "pull back"... a "remote" factor from labor struggle
to view labor struggle objectively... dispassionately...

The ability to "pull back" (zoom out) is very tough in a media culture
in which "dialogue" is with a one-way stream of information. You sit in
a high-rise urban environment, and look out across the skies... you see
towers of people sitting in little rooms with the flickering blue-white
of TV...

Ken.

--
I don't know who discovered water,
But I know it wasn't a fish.
          -- Marshall McLuhan