Dear Cherryl,
I didn't respond to your dream because I didn't
know what to say. It wasn't that I necessarily disagreed with what you
expressed, I just found it too sentimental and it is my experience that such
sentimentality comes with a huge price ticket. I think what bob was saying
was that it's better to put what values and affection you have for people
into daily life, rather than thinking about a rosy future that doesn't
exist. Neither was he attempting to
compete on the oppression stakes as you seemed to think. He was, I
think, just saying, wake up, get real!
Is there a future; is there even a
present?
Your comments on servants smack of colonialism
- the happy servants working in the fields... It really isn't a matter
of how we define things. Black people for instance, have been called
all kinds of things but it doesn't alter the fact of their
disadvantage for being born with a black skin. And all over the
world people are suffering from shortages of food and health care.
They don't need role models, they need food. I do not need a role model
either: actually I need a job, but cannot get one as I don't fit in to a go
getter competitve culture.
I think you are trying to look after the people
on this list, which is what mother's do. I am a mother too and I
recognise it in you, but mothers have to be careful to include ourselves in
that nurturing and I was wondering where you were in your
dreaming world.
I think we live in a motherless culture
and that is one of the main reasons this society and it's universities is
not wise.
all the best,
Isabel. (not
bob)