What do you assume about the author – their background, their politics, their authority to write such a chapter? 2) What does the author mean by ′Truth′ and how does this differ from ′story′? 3) Come to class with at least one example of ″certain ways of seeing the world are established as natural, as obvious and essential, even though they are often entirely counterintuitive and socially engineered.″ (p. 13) 4) What is the ‘consciousness grid’ – the Thatcherian declaration that ’there is no alternative’ to the way the world is framed? 5) What is he referring to (and why does he problematize it) when he says “it is a wonder our forebears once said, ‘Because you are, I am’. What now stands…is Descartes’ insistence that ’I think, therefore I exist’″
