Sunday, 20 September 2009

Man's Blame Game

While reading through various texts, articles along cultural studies - I was amazed at some of the statements -

"Knowledge is never neutral"
" Cultural studies can not be purely rational."
" Meanings are never unbiased"
and so on...

What is interesting to see here is how many is shifting all of his own biases on to something that is non-living !

Knowledge is by very nature - neutral - unless it comes in touch with a human !
Meanings are absolute, but they become relative as they come in tough with human !

So to be blamed is human and not the object itself.

Just because, we the human are incapable of keeping our biases aside, incapable of seeing things as they are - we generalize the whole idea itself.

This phenomenon is more evident in so called "Post-modern" scenario where most thinkers have agreed to the fact that knowledge is never neutral and meanings are never constant.

I'd better reframe it as - Man is never neutral.

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