tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539912.post114497238969637265..comments2024-03-09T20:09:10.016-05:00Comments on Heartcrossings: Class And CasteHeartcrossingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11611681863892546438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539912.post-1145098091286649172006-04-15T06:48:00.000-04:002006-04-15T06:48:00.000-04:00It strikes me as disingenuous to posit, as a defen...It strikes me as disingenuous to posit, as a defense, an 'intelligent premise' behind the caste system. <BR/><BR/>All systems of hierarchy and social control have an intelligent premise -- its just not a very palatable one when seen from the lower echehlons. <BR/><BR/>The critique from the bottom of a caste, or capitalist or slavery based system --- is the one that needs to be given ethical priority. <BR/><BR/>There are some interesting economic proposals in the Professors article about creating freedom opportunities for groups through micro-economic means rather than macro-legislative programs. Good for the Professor. These are mapped onto a defense of the caste system that seems blurred by by an identification of caste with rewarding and pleasureable parts of culture. Bad Professor.<BR/><BR/>A comparison: Hollywood under the Hayes Code and Iran under the current theocracy heavily censor film. Great works are produced under this system of intensely administered control. This does not amke censorship a good thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10539912.post-1144980028208844062006-04-13T22:00:00.000-04:002006-04-13T22:00:00.000-04:00All societies have classes and some form of "caste...All societies have classes and some form of "caste system". The Indian system was introduced with an intelligent premise. <BR/><BR/>Where that premise was used in letter and spirit there were good results as the professor points out. <BR/><BR/>So having a caste system is not an evil in itself misusing it definitely is and there is enough proof of that in India.Heartcrossingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11611681863892546438noreply@blogger.com