https://www.hayden.co.nz/2009/08/30/are-you-living-yesterdays-life-today/ Ideas, Tech, Change & Disruption Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:46:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 https://www.hayden.co.nz/2009/08/30/are-you-living-yesterdays-life-today/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:13:05 +0000 http://www.hayden.co.nz/?p=40#comment-8 A text does not have meaning outside of a set of cultural assumptions regarding both what the characters mean and how they should be interpreted. We interpret texts because we are part of an interpretive community that gives us a particular way of reading a text. Furthermore, we cannot know whether someone is a part of our interpretive community or not, because any act of communication that we could engage in to tell whether we are part of the same interpretive community would have to be interpreted. That is, because we cannot escape our interpretive community, we can never really know its limits. (Stanely Fish 1976). So personal culture is the constraint on the freedom of mind. Embrace your identity and acknowledge your subjectiveness has already been shaped.

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