Monday, March 28, 2005

Institutional versus Individual Filters

Has there ever been a society that could levelly countenance any subject? I mean ANY subject? Has there ever been such an individual? Could any institution within any society ever possibly be even-handed or level-headed about any (x) or all (x-inclusive) challenges?
I don't think so.
And pk specializes in probing the margins.

Mythology is handy: it provides recognizable SYMBOLIC examples:
Could any group of Jews level-headedly consider whether or not a particular group of rabbis two millennia ago unfairly flushed away a prophet with candidacy for Messiah?
Could any group of Catholics level-headedly consider whether or not any particular heresy deserved the harsh treatment it in fact received from their ancestors' hands?
Could any group of Americans level-headedly consider whether or not any particular parcel of their most-prime real estate was legally acquired?

Ask any religion: How many messengers of truth have you homeostatically but wrongly tortured as a heretic?
How many will answer none? if they deign to answer at all?

Ask any state: How many would-be reformers have you homeostatically but wrongly censored, imprisoned, blackballed ... as a radical? a trouble-maker?
How many will answer none? if they deign to answer at all?

Ask any university: How many messengers of truth have you homeostatically but wrongly mis-identified and mis-labeled? And in how many cases did you abridge your own rules in order to dismiss them, not understand them, blackball them, give them no fair hearing?
How many will answer none? if they deign to answer at all?

just starting, more coming
the context being initiation of a conversation with a professor about pk's repressed Shakespeare thesis

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