But as the British socialist thinker Ralph Miliband put it, “access to positions of power by members of the subordinate classes does not change the fact of domination; it only changes the personnel.”
The assumption that contemporary North America and Europe already have near-classless societies, to be made perfectly classless by a few low-cost policy interventions, also compels neoliberals to attribute the problems of the native white Western working class not to the class system but rather to personal shortcomings, which a number of unfortunate individuals are alleged to share.
Nothing in a child's brain tells her to whom she should attach. Nature's assumption, if we can put it that way, is that the parents will be consistently present. Children are born with this expectation coded into their bodies and nervous systems. The immature brain cannot abide what Gordon Neufeld calls an "attachment void -a situation in which no attachment figure is there to connect with. Inevitably, just as a newborn duckling, in the absence of its mother, will trustingly follow the first creature it sees -the nearest goose, squirrel, park ranger, or even a robotic toy car -the vacuum must and will be filled by whoever is around.
Her çiçeğin bir mevsimi, her kitabın bir zamanı vardır. Haziranın tadını yeni hikâyelerle çıkarın.
When authors write, much of what they say is a product, not of their distinctive insight or ability, but the result of the language they are employing. For much of the text, it is just language that is speaking. One standard Romantic idea sees the author as straining against the structures of language to express unique individual insights. Here, the assumption is that an author has access to a personal, pre-linguistic vision, the expression of which must work against language's tendency to merely conventional expression.
While Bonet and others had often in the past condemned the warrior for robbery and cruelty toward peasants, they were now ready to condemn chivalry’s fundamental assumption that military capacity resided in none but the mounted knight.
Bourbon and Coucy consulted with twelve of the leading lords and, evidently on the assumption that infidels were ignorant, replied that they came to make war on the Saracens because they were unbelievers “with no creed of their own,” which made them enemies, and also to retaliate upon their forefathers “for having crucified and put to death the son of God called Jesus Christ.” “At this answer the Saracens did nothing but laugh, saying it was the Jews who had crucified Jesus Christ and not they.” The parley evidently ended there.
We start to make our way down the coastal trail. He asks me about my future and I ask him about his past. There's something about it that devastates me, in the assumption that my life is ahead of me and his is behind him. That twenty years is the difference between a life that's considered yet to be lived and one that's considered over.
