Tag: thought
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Fiction as a Scalpel for Reality
The world we live in has its own myth; myth does not mean something which is intrinsically false, but in the sense held by Roland Barthes, a means of signification that leads or takes over reality. The myth of the world can be divided into fact and fiction – the actual, what has been experienced,…
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The Obsession with Hierarchy
“There is always a bigger fish.” “The natural order.” “The top of the food chain.” Let us talk about the “natural order” of things.Community is not intrinsically hierarchical. Yes, there are people who are more adept at carrying out tasks more than others. But hierarchy implies such a thing as an “ideal” leading the top.…
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