Hrm.

I gotta say, George Kateb is a lot more easier to read than I thought. There're a lot of paradoxes, which I want to discuss in class today. I'm afraid I didn't quite mesh well, on a personal level, with the discussion of individuality within politics. Seemed like these writers were too concerned with individuality, and not enough on community. I understand that the point of individuality (uniqueness) is in complete opposition with the point of community (conformity), but I do think that there is a point where they CAN be reconciled within a single person.

Just because you're part of a bigger thing doesn't mean you can't be your own person too. There's a time and place for everything.

As an example, remember Dogma? There's a scene in Dogma where Bethany's all angsty and shit because she's the last scion, and she says to the Metatron, "then everything I lived was a lie." and the Metatron says "No. No no no no no. You are Bethany Sloan. No one, not even God, can take that away from you. Just... be this other person as well."

Being unable to reconciled identities is a bit like me saying that just because I'm Chinese, I should be in Comemrce, not in Arts, because all the Chinese are in Commerce. That's just silly. I can be Asian AND in the Arts, I can also be Asian AND be dumb.