The response to the solipsistic claim made by those pop-music icons who declared...."we are the world...", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
is, well, not quite.
Such a claim 'we are the world' nullifies the dualism between myself 'inside' and the rest of the world 'outside'. The world and words are indistinguishable. In this way, the relationship between theory and practice, that is, between developing ideas that adequately and accurately represent social and natural patterns of determination, is quite easily solved by a sentimental song; the stroke of a pen (or keyboard) by claiming and/or assuming that our ideas about the world are in reality (the same as) the world.
is, well, not quite.
Such a claim 'we are the world' nullifies the dualism between myself 'inside' and the rest of the world 'outside'. The world and words are indistinguishable. In this way, the relationship between theory and practice, that is, between developing ideas that adequately and accurately represent social and natural patterns of determination, is quite easily solved by a sentimental song; the stroke of a pen (or keyboard) by claiming and/or assuming that our ideas about the world are in reality (the same as) the world.
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