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well, that's interesting isn't it.
undoing the effects of material history is far more difficult than undoing the effects of some set of shared dispositions which, if they exist, don't come from anywhere outside the group to which they're attributed. it gets ugly, difficult, problematic.
and you should perhaps know that if the above is correct and structural characteristics that shape the material situation outlined in the report that's way back there in the op derive from history, they also derive from particular internalized relations to that history, internalized relations which are generated by contexts, by the educational system, by opportunities which may or may not exist (spatial segregation makes it hard to talk in general terms...spaces differ one from the other)
in my more residual left moments, i would say that alot of what the right would attribute to essence i would be inclined to attribute to domination, an effect of domination. what that would lead to would be an idea that this domination could be reversed to the extent that its consequences or effects could be recognized and the chain of repetitions potentially broken. but i don't know whether that's naive or not.
to go much further would require going back through the brief again to look for the specific features it references and think about what might be done to alter them. as if it were up to me to fashion alternatives. fact is that no alternative would happen all at once. nothing happens all at once--everything is a process & every process changes with the environments they interact with. so pragmatically it should be enough to agree politically that this unequal distribution of wealth is a problem, something important enough to address, and to fashion attempts to deal with it and put them into motion.
but it seems everyone is so timid these days, so worried about the way things play on a tv news cycle temporality--so policies become like toasters and problems something you stick inside that toaster and something either happens or it doesn't. but that's itself part of the problem, yes? this tiny time-frame people work with that reduces processes to objects and being to having...
but i digress.
ok cimmaron: your turn.
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