Megne, My Friend:

yes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". yeah, yeah, yeah! or the good intentions, simply by the virtue (or even by their authority) of their being good, is forgetful and oblivious of the road to hell that they are grounded in and thus cannot escape from. for me, these days, this forgetfulness or oblivion of difference in power, not simply of "difference," is what can be named "evil" in the guise of a "good" in this politico-ethical world. e.g., talks on tolerance, recognition, understanding, blah blah of the groups of people that they call minority, foreigners, the social weak (a korean term), disabled, migrants, etc. these days, i even hear this kind of phrase, "becoming minority"; trying to learn how it feels like being a minority in this society. doesnt it sound like a kind of Cartesian simulation game. (i can perhaps call this as "minorit-ing"??) the problem is the condition in which certain people become (to be named) as "minority," right? nobody could be free from this. but this becoming minority kind of mentality and sensibility doesnt question the threshold of minority/non-minority, why they are NOT minority and certain people ARE and importantly why they think they can choose to "become" minority and taste how it feels like? why don't they question themselves and their own place/placed-ness first? why dont they?!!! i am becoming so sick and angry of this kind of narcisism. by not questioning (themselves, more precisly, their own act of intervention), aren't they just naturalizing the difference of/in power and pacify the political-s (Mouffe)?

well, as good students (?), we still may have to understand the good intentions in their own rights and history. and perhaps what becomes central is the gap between (good) intentions and effects of htese; the translation (in progress) and the irony (in retrospect). but as a person, i can't help hating too much obvious forgetfulness-es. . .mmm

we should talk sometime! i am slightly revising my project topic from the politics of sympathy towards the politics of multiculturalism (both as practice and discourse) - how its techno/knowledge-centrism (in Korea) reconfigure (our favorite word!) the polit-ethics (cf. "po/ethics" by GARRI XXXX) of otherness.