From Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama:

1. Compare critical theory and postmodern theory. What issues do they have in common? What issues keep them apart? How does this comparison fit into Fellman's paradigm of adversarialism and mutuality?
   • Link the theory to distributive justice.
   • Link the theory to the importance of theory to measurement in statistics.
   • Link the theory to the issues in creating a peacemaking identity.

   Conceptual Linking to Distributive Justice:

   Consider the postmodern concern with Enlightenment and the discontent with Imperialism that failed to bring prosperity to the whole world, and resulted in ever-deepening gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Lyotard wants to reject all meta-narrative as failing to deal with these primal issues of local narrative. Consider critical theory's concern to understand the unstated assumptions, to examine why the system works, and what doesn't work.

   Conceptual Linking to Theory:

   Modern Social Theory needs to answer some of today's questions on race, on gender, on power and resources and how they shall be shared. To do that theory must answer some of the criticisms of Enlightenment, positivism, and the impossibiliity of science to "control" and "make the world better."

   Conceptual Linking to Love and Peace:

   Consider the difficulties of maintaining the tentatively understood mutuality paradigm in the midst of a world overrun by the adversarial compulsion. See Tina Juen's comments.

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2. Why couldn't we find adversarialism in the dictionary? Is that a fault of the dictionary? Where do you turn when such problems arise?

   See When Dictionaries Don't Work

3. What is conceptual linking, and why do we want it?

   See examples in question 1 above.

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