A paragraph I like

Read this paragraph in a book, and fell in love with it. I guess in an indirect way it has captured the essence of my internal dilemma - of being a civil servant-to-be and a independent columnist; of knowing the constraints of our Singaporean system while sensing the need for (radical) change in mindsets; of having to convince but not rejecting the possibility of 'positive' censorship of the truth (if there is such a thing); and of hoping to be 'free' while having to employ the use of 'unseen' power in Foucaultian style...

"Taught by the Frankfurt School of the psychically and socially, aesthetically and sexually destructive force of particular regimes of capital; offered a bleaker postwar version of the self by philosophic and literary existentialism; taught by Foucaultians about the impossibility of escape from normative discourses; and taught by postcolonialists and indigenous writers about the genocidal force of those phenomena that purported to know truth, justice and science, it is no surprise that many of us appear to be allergic to normativity, clinging to the necessary but somewhat safer intellectual haven of critique, and reluctant to get our hands dirty with the sticky matter of what educationally is to be done in these difficult conditions."
(From Allan Luke, "Curriculum, Ethics, Metanarrative", p. 23. In "Struggle over Differences: Curriculum, Texts and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific".)