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0050 Okay, the ostrich, the parasite and the syndrome of the postmodern academy1c<\/sub><\/em> wants to illuminate the darkness of the system1b<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, doesn’t it take one to know one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oops, that is a saying straight out of the now-suppessed handbook of orthodox views1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That brings me back to what the ostrich does not want to see<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, should I say, “What does the ostrich not want everyone else not to see.”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Saad strives to describe what the ostrich does not want everyone else to see<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0051 What does the ostrich not want everyone else to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect that this evolutionary scientist<\/em> sees the following virtual nested form in the category of secondess<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0052 While the items in the realm of potential<\/em> are topics for discussion in the new academy, the elements in the realm of actuality<\/em> can be observed and measured on postmodern college campuses throughout Western civilization.  The normal context of a privileged status for those who are oppressed2c<\/sub><\/em> virtually brings the dyadic actuality<\/em> that some identify as oppressed<\/em> and some are identified as oppressor2b<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the potential of persons engaging in a personal choices2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0053 Does this mesh with Saad’s label, “ostrich parasitic syndrome”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0054 In terms of gender, one’s personal choice2a<\/sub><\/em> reveals the relevance of one’s human will1a<\/sub><\/em> in the normal context of social construction3a<\/sub><\/em>.  Personal choice2a <\/sub>is a syndrome that transcends (even as it bans) the most obvious symptoms of biological sexual dimorphism in humans1a<\/sub><\/em> (that is, men and women2a<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syndromes are clusters of symptoms<\/em>.  Orthodox views3a<\/sub> label syndromes1a<\/sub> as products, not of human will1a<\/sub>, but ofcertain underlying material or instrumental causes1a<\/sub><\/em>.  In the frame of science, these causes are biological.  In the frame of philosophy, these causes are discussed in terms of natural laws.  Natural laws<\/em> correlate syndromes<\/em> with underlying causalities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, fixation on personal choice2a<\/sub><\/em> is a syndrome, from the orthodox points of view of science and philosophy, which are not to be regarded in the College of Social Construction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0055 In terms of gender, males are identified as oppressors2b<\/sub> and females are identified as oppressed2b<\/sub>.  A critical theory3b<\/sub><\/em> assists identification2b<\/sub> on the basis of the potential of a system1b<\/sub><\/em>.  For gender, the system1b<\/sub> is labeled, “the patriarchy”1b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0056 What is a parasite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A parasite feeds off its host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I look at oppressor and oppressed, I can ask the question, “Who is the parasite and who is the host.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, the oppressor feeds off the oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0057 But, the actual relation is the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask, “If the parasite can choose to be a parasite and the host cannot choose its fate, then how does choice2a<\/sub> align with the actualities2b<\/sub> of critical theory3b<\/sub>?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the female may voluntarily associate to the label of “oppressed”2b<\/sub> and the male has no choice but to accept the label of “oppressor”2b<\/sub>.  Voluntary association with the oppressed2b<\/sub><\/em> virtually situates the content-level actuality of personal choice2a<\/sub><\/em>.  Rejection of the label of “oppressor”2b<\/sub><\/em> directly situates the resisting involuntary<\/em> with complicity with the system1b<\/sub> theorized by critique3b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This implies that the so-called “oppressor”2b<\/sub> is the host and the self-identifying “oppressed”2b<\/sub> is the parasite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0058 Let me say that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to the obvious conclusion, the self-identifying “oppressed”2b<\/sub> are parasitic upon their involuntarily identified “oppressors”2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question now becomes, “What substance does the parasite draw from its host?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0059 One answer is apparent in the normal context2c<\/sub> for the virtual nested form in the realm of actuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oppressed2b<\/sub> draws priveleged status2c<\/sub> from the oppressor2b<\/sub>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this answer cannot be admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, the metaphor of “ostrich” applies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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