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From: "carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 06:06:44 CST
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C o m m e n t a r i e s .3
It is perverse that within the state of science, what is called
value, is not, in fact, valued, and that what now unacknowledgedly
partakes of that meaning and committment are only science and its issue.
And it is similarly perverse that just as values are not valued,
in that precise same way, are politics not political.
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The knowledge of the individual takes what legitimacy it has from
science; the actions, from technique. Beyond the public content, the
individual is conceived as a sacred vessel of appetites and self interest,
preferences and opinion, whimsies and caprice. These being insubstantial
are seen as behavioral attributes, appropriate for technical adaptation.
The sacredness of the individual is not specific, but is anonymous
in character; the mathematical agent of some transactional regularities.
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The objective plane is the space of science. It is, above all,
a public space, but existentially apart and quite literally Over There.
When a person can perceive the world in that plane, (s)he has become a
scientist. When a person can perceive him(her)self in that plane, he
has become self consciously public, perfectly anonymous and truly modern;
-- the voyeur and the scientist's dream.
A state constituted about the objective plane is rationalized around
anonymity rather than belief. This defines the dilemma of education.
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