.
I salute the courage and perspicacity of Amilcar Vital in reaching a realistic
conclusion, and apologise again for the lack of pragmatic propositions from
this list.
My own field is the study of social responses to disability and PWD in the
present and historical past of Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries.
The absence of practical responses is also found there -- for example in an
old story about a mad man at Baghdad, who was bothered by small boys.
They followed him everywhere, shouting rude remarks and throwing stones
(as is customary in many countries today). He sometimes tried to beat off the
boys, or to throw stones back at them, but this retaliation merely attracted
more boys to harrass him.
One day, he took refuge from the boys by climbing over the wall of a big
compound. Once inside, he found that he was in the grounds of the
Governor's residence. He thought to himself, "I will go and plead my case
with the Governor, to see if he can give me some relief from these accursed
boys. Creeping up to the big house, he peeped through a window. But what
he saw inside made him lose hope, and he began to move away toward the
outer wall again. Then some guards noticed him, and caught hold of him and
dragged him inside, and brought him before the governor, who demanded to
know why he was skulking about in the grounds of the house.
>
> "Highly Respected Governor", said the madman, "my humble apologies
for disturbing Your Greatness. I was going to ask you to help me against the
street boys who bother me all day long. But then, through the window, I saw
Your Greatness sitting on the throne, with six servants waving fans at you
from every side. Then I understood, that a man who has six servants fanning
him, because he cannot even keep the flies away from his own face, would
be completely useless in helping me against the street boys. So I was going
away from your house, when your guards caught me. Very sorry for giving you
any trouble!"
(Well... even Barak Obama can sometimes catch his own fly...)
miles
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:22:42 -0300, Vital Amilcar
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>Dear researchers, non researchers and people that try to understand a
>little more of our world,
>
> Thank you very much for your e-mail, when i read i see your point
>regarding what i have wrote in here, yes we cant afford the luxury of
>making an endless discussion about the subject while there are many
>people throughout the world, struggling about living with a disability
>or not. My point is that even in the so called developed countries,
>where there are developed people and more conditions to carrie out any
>discussions, if we remain stucked talking about things such as the
>name we should call the ones who have a disability or who is against
>or not in anything wont be of any usage.
>
> Indeed, there isn't a solution about the matter even in the so
>called developed countries, and i m sure that i wont find any in here,
>as we don't have a solution for everything even in your reality,
>indeed that the world doesn't need any thesis or so about something
>that have being writing, but locally we do need and still gonna need
>to understand such subjects even if only to know the local phenomena
>and going with it start to look at national and international
>experiences.
>
> The fact is, that is not a solution, that never been and never
>will, what we can do is to learn and try empirically find out how to
>just improve, and keep on it.
>
>Regards
>
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