Satisfaction of self-defined preference
"Hopes of religious salvation are displaced by expectations that centre on the state as supreme manager of professional services. Each of many special priesthoods claims competence to define public issues in terms of specific serviceable problems. The acceptance of this claim legitimates the docile recognition of imputed lacks on the part of the layman, whose world turns into an echo-chamber of engineered and managed needs. This dominance, the satisfaction of self-defined preference, is sacrificed to the fulfilment of educated needs and is reflected in the skyline of the city. Professional buildings look down on the crowds that shuttle between them in a continual pilgrimage to the new cathedrals of health, education, and welfare." (Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment)
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alibey1917 What does the emphasized part say exactly? I'm starting to like this guy despite his flaky English. The skyline thing is brilliant.
- alibey1917 What does the emphasized part say exactly?
- I'm starting to like this guy despite his flaky English.
- The skyline thing is brilliant.
- He is talking about what he calls "self-defined preference", that is, a person's power to pursue what is important to him and ignore the rest.
- I can't say I like his choice of the word "sacrifice", which seems to be there only denigrate the "educated needs", which if he wants to denigrate, he should go ahead and do it and not be so coy.
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alibey1917What does the emphasized part say exactly?
I'm starting to like this guy despite his flaky English. The skyline thing is brilliant. He is talking about what he calls "self-defined preference", that is, a person's power to pursue what is important to him and ignore the rest. I can't say I like his choice of the word "sacrifice", which seems to be t
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