As i was Writing my SCD #1 . . .

As I was writing my first short critical discussion I realized that I at least had not really thought through the implications of one of Foucault's main arguments. It was something I will be bringing out in my paper, but i also wanted to post here about it. It was the very premise that the historical, social and cultural background that the author represents will be something that hinders the reader’s ability to use the text in their lives in present. This supposition is based on the theory that the experiences, culture and society of whatever time period and situation the author is writing in is so vastly different and alien as to hind the transition of meaning from the text to the reader in whatever time and situation they are in. This supposition is both arrogant and illogical. Human beings are at their core very similar to one another; this is what makes us one species. And so, though on the surface the situations of some ones life and experience may seem totally weird and foreign a good writer will write in such a way as to make their theories relatable to anyone no matter where or when they read it. This is not to say that a good work will never fall out of fashion. All books and pieces of writing fall in and out of fashion and that is okay. The cyclical nature of good writing means that authors may go out of fashion, but they will always come back, because they speak to the nature of man and give us something to talk or argue about.