Susanne wrote, in part-
>Intelligence is measured by the amount of "right" answers you give to
>questions. These questions are not only biased to fit the "norm - being"
>they are also questions to which we already know the answers (or at least
>think we do).
And to the extent we get it "right," we have succumbed to or fall within
the normalizing gaze.
I cannot help but feel that this is just another way of
>upholding the present authority or to give credibility to the ruling power
>structure.
Yes! It is a way of creating normality and difference both.
>Isn't it the questions we ask ourselves and others which push development
>forward? And if so, isn't it the individual, thinking in unconventional or
>unexpected directions, who is most capable of posing the relevant questions?
Yes- and by the use of numbered creations of intelligence, we also push
those who ask those more culturally relevant (or at least
unconventional/unexpected) questions further to the margins where they can
be at best ignored or disremembered, at worst oppressed.
Phil
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