Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Robert Appleby [mailto:robert.appleby@tin.it] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:31 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Never again! "Barthes emphasises the need to probe the history of social arrangements. Rather than scratching human history to reveal the solid rock of a universal human nature, he argues, a progressive humanism must scour nature to discover history, and finally to establish Nature itself as historical.... It is the superficial "humanizing" of others, rather than the empathetic probing of different lifeways, experiences, and interests that creates the crises of understanding that break open at times of war." Just when I'd run out of hard things to think about, the LUG comes through again! Thank you Robert, for that little jewel. I guess those 94 years haven't all been wasted... "the superficial humanizing of others" - we are not all the same; we are all indeed different from our fellows - what a hopeful thought! Paul