opening up

Posts Tagged ‘confusing’

two pressure points

In economics, politics on 23 June 2008 tagged affirmative action, charity, confusing, ivan-illich, majority, minority, social engineering, social-reform, welfare with 4 comments

Social reforms involving a minority1 approach their task with a mixture of two strategies:

Changing the way those in power perceive those whom you seek to help.
Changing the way those whom you seek to help present themselves to those in power.

This is not as subtle a statement as I’ve made it seem2 . There is [...]