Comments on: two pressure points http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/two-pressure-points/ changing things around. . . Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alec http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/two-pressure-points/#comment-531 Alec Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:13:28 +0000 http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/?p=509#comment-531 <p><a href="http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/a-new-policy/" rel="nofollow">Here you go!</a> Thanks a bunch.</p> Here you go! Thanks a bunch.

]]> By: a new policy | stimulant - changing things around. . . http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/two-pressure-points/#comment-530 a new policy | stimulant - changing things around. . . Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:22 +0000 http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/?p=509#comment-530 <p>[...] Nagle made the point recently that I’m not always as clear as I could be on this blog. This blog serves several purposes, [...]</p> […] Nagle made the point recently that I’m not always as clear as I could be on this blog. This blog serves several purposes, […]

]]> By: n! http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/two-pressure-points/#comment-527 n! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:57:53 +0000 http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/?p=509#comment-527 <p>I had trouble with a few sentences here:</p> <p>"Myriad factors influence the minority’s situation; however, these factors penultimately terminate with how the empowered and disempowered relate."</p> <p>The phrase "penultimately terminate" stumped me for a few minutes. What does it mean? Does it mean "prematurely terminate?"</p> <p>"Even this language is misleading — the effects of the means with which a group is empowered is coupled more strongly to the social norms surrounding those means than the means themselves."</p> <p>This one stumped me too, but the sentence before it and couple of sentences after it made enough sense that I could skip it. (Here I'm not asking you to explain, but just pointing it out.) It's like you're trying to freestyle, using the word means so much!</p> I had trouble with a few sentences here:

“Myriad factors influence the minority’s situation; however, these factors penultimately terminate with how the empowered and disempowered relate.”

The phrase “penultimately terminate” stumped me for a few minutes. What does it mean? Does it mean “prematurely terminate?”

“Even this language is misleading — the effects of the means with which a group is empowered is coupled more strongly to the social norms surrounding those means than the means themselves.”

This one stumped me too, but the sentence before it and couple of sentences after it made enough sense that I could skip it. (Here I’m not asking you to explain, but just pointing it out.) It’s like you’re trying to freestyle, using the word means so much!

]]> By: the line between action and reaction | stimulant - changing things around. . . http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/two-pressure-points/#comment-526 the line between action and reaction | stimulant - changing things around. . . Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:35:17 +0000 http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/?p=509#comment-526 <p>[...] I recently hinted at the ways in which blame, power, responsibility, and guilt inform our ideas about social reform when [...]</p> […] I recently hinted at the ways in which blame, power, responsibility, and guilt inform our ideas about social reform when […]

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