Suddenly that very word appears alien to me: DISCUSSION.
Now what exactly is a discussion? (Try defining it on your own before you read on.)
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Is a discussion an act of one person sharing his view to another and the other doing likewise? Or does a discussion have to come to a certain level of compromise or agreement in order to qualify as a discussion? Or does a discussion have to involve 2 or more conflicting views? Because as far as I see it, without 2 or more conflicting views, it's a conversation. What's a conversation? What's a discussion?
Dictionary.com says it is
an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., esp. to explore solutions; informal debate.
American Heritage Dictionary says it is
1. Consideration of a subject by a group; an earnest conversation.
2. A formal discourse on a topic; an exposition.
So is a discussion simply an exchanging of views without coming to a conclusion or does is it also comprised of a compromise? Because as far as I understand the definitions, two people can engage in a headlock argument and come out of the room saying "we had a good discussion on that issue."
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hey you're venturing very very close to a topic where i'll have a heck of a lot to say about. hah. this is the essence of the modernism/postmodernism debate, somewhat. and you don't have to look further than people from last year's camp to know just how much i have to say on that debate hah.
suffice to say that the problem of discourse that you're talking about in this post concerns the dispute over conditions necessary for there being a discourse in the first place. on the modernist side are people who yearn for varying degrees of enlightenment who think that discourse is possible on some more or less universal level, while the postmodernists believe that any such notion will lead to terror and marginalization of some sort.
i can't really elaborate more here. maybe sometime when i can do it in the flesh. haha. if you're even interested. hahaha.
hmm. i think that settles it then. thank you, but you shld save your brain cells for more productive activities.
but, postmodernist. that's a strange word. it's like saying, the 'old ancient'.
its over-funny to see you in sch can?! and a thought occurred to me today: how do you look with hair?
hey some people will want to think us as still being postmodern. in some fields that is. others will want to think we're post-postmodern. i think we've just reverted to either modernism or pre-modernism.
i will look very irritated. cos of the heat.
ha-ha. very funny. -.-" :D
castaways lost [touch of] modernization [in both sense].
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