Question about Question 33: Free entry and exit?
Can anyone help me understand Question 33 from the Reimagining Society poll?
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
I don't understand Question 33 from the Vision and Strategy poll, and I'm looking for an example to illustrate what is meant. Are we talking about institutions such as sports clubs? Or hopsitals? Or the police?
33. A new culture I would most favor would seek institutions which guarantee free entry and exit for representative of all cultural communities in society. It would likewise advocate that institutions that do have free entry and exit can be under the complete discretion of their members, so long as they don't conflict with society's laws.
I wouldn't mind the local chess club being "under the complete discretion of [its] members", with free entry and exit for all, but I'm not so sure about the military...
Comments are welcome.
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By McGehee, Michael at Mar 04, 2010 22:28 PM
"Regarding culture and community vision for a new society" not the military
question 31 mentions "institutions that ensure people can have multiple cultural and social identifies where which identity is most important to any particular person at any particular time" and then goes on to say in question 33 that people should be allowed to enter and leave these institutions freely.
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What's a "cultural institution"?
By Corbett, Jean-Francois at Mar 23, 2010 20:54 PM
You mean this is only regarding cultural institutions? I don't know, that's not the way I read question 33 (or 31), I thought they were about institutions in general. But okay, sure, but then, what's a "cultural institution", or, more to the point, what isn't?
I'm sure that no one would generally oppose the right to leave an institution freely. But the entry part is more problematic. For example, should everyone, including men, be allowed to enter a women's organization, and have a claim to the "same" treatment, same right to leadership, etc. as women?
I wish Michael Albert would clarify what was meant when writing the question.
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Re: What's a "cultural institution"?
By McGehee, Michael at Mar 24, 2010 00:31 AM
the definition of culture isnt mentioned in the poll but has a kind of built-in assumption based on previous work related to Z, complementary holism, etc.
a woman's organization would fall into the category of gender, not culture.
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