tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post8536955396479699586..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Monday Forum - end of progress?Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-33910359410914399342017-05-31T15:31:31.101+10:002017-05-31T15:31:31.101+10:00Morning, kvd. There are several wildebeest videos ...Morning, kvd. There are several wildebeest videos that I found. That was quite pleasant. Was I the one being pulled down or is it just an analogy to my current confusion, the froth of it all?<br /><br />The Shriver case is actually well taken in terms of your point: "What we are seeing is the day-to-day "dust" of present shifts and movements in things once assumed settled, and this may/will distort any view of what such movement might "mean" in terms of progress."<br /><br />There is a conflict between my point about progress over time that can only be seen with time and the present way I posed the question. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-45922209622506367552017-05-30T18:10:28.309+10:002017-05-30T18:10:28.309+10:00I finished a book the other day by Lionel Shriver ...I finished a book the other day by Lionel Shriver - The Female of the Species - (aside: one benefit of living in a fairly intelligent small community is the quality of the books they discard, even if old; now where was I, oh yes) and I was so impressed that I looked up her bio, and thus stumbled upon that whole Writers' Festival/cultural appropriation thing - the best of which was covered in The Guardian (Shriver's speech) and The Guardian (Yassmin Abdel-Magied in reply) and The New Yorker ("The New Activism of Liberal Arts Colleges") - which all, in their own way, provided some thoughtful, at times quite contradictory, views on the present roiling we see in things once assumed 'settled' or 'agreed'.<br /><br />And I bet you think I'm off-topic :)<br /><br />But the point (or at least, my point) is that we won't see the outcomes, or the effects of the outcomes, of this present unsettled questioning of the status quo until some time has passed.<br /><br />What we are seeing is the day-to-day "dust" of present shifts and movements in things once assumed settled, and this may/will distort any view of what such movement might "mean" in terms of progress.<br /><br />Cue Youtube vid of wildebeests on the vast Serengeti; you're riding the third one on the left :)<br /><br />kvd<br /><br /> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com