[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Brujo story)
Platt Holden
pholden at davtv.com
Tue May 30 14:38:08 PDT 2006
> [Steve]
> What intellectual patterns won? I saw that whole story as being set
> pretty much in the social level.
>
> [Platt]
> The brujo made an intellectual connection with the white man:
>
> "The brujo had shown he could deal successfully with the one tribe that
> could easily wipe them out any time it wanted to. It wasn't just a sweet
> singing voice that made him governor of Zuni. He had real political
> clout."
>
> [Arlo]
> That is a social connection, as Steve had rightly stated.
No surprise that Arlo would agree since to him everything is social.
For him, original thoughts such as the brujo exhibited in successfully
dealing with the threatening tribe don't exist.
Platt
More information about the Moq_Discuss
mailing list