2010-01-08
Ordinary ordering of men
Now that our society has elected the first President with demonstrable African ancestry we've come one step closer
to what I call the "ordinary ordering of men". No longer can it be said that all black people know each other, the
seven degrees of separation now applies. No longer can your black friend be representative of all black people, since
in reality we've all been in the same boat called the American Class System. The ordinary ordering of men is how men judge
each other in Sport, family, politics, or any given social situation. People mistake the theory of Racism Semantics: a Paradigmatic
Fallacy to mean that I advocate a draconian PC climate in which ethnic difference can never be identified; in short,
I don't. However, what I do oppose is the use of the informal/casual social ordering that is Race being used in the formal
social ordering of law and governance. The former is a creative social use of a cultural ordering; the latter is a codified
structural use of an informal cultural ordering. History of the fallacy will continue to apply for some time, however, we've
gone overboard and made ourselves prisoner to a fallacy. Where else in our society do we govern from an informal cultural
ordering? We simply don't do this in any other aspect of our society. Religion, sports, music etc...Let's choose a different
path for our society.
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