It is due to my frustration regarding all things “computerized” that I am just now posting on Dronke. My apologies.
\nWhen Dronke goes into the issue of translation, I perk up. In hindsight everything is a phenomenon, and we are able to distance ourselves sufficiently to “study” the past. The warnings that history is doomed to repeat itself if we don’t pay attention the first time around is crap; we’re going to repeat it, it’s just a matter of time before we get cocky enough to think that certain events and practices are simply of the past and that\u00c2\u00a0we are now more sophisticated.
\nCertain tendencies are part of “human nature,” if you’ll excuse the clich\u00c3\u00a9. One of these tendencies is stealing ideas from another group (ahem, culture) due to their exotic appeal, among other things. (I realize I’m being reductionist and that there are a million and one reasons to steal from […]<\/p>\n
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