Ian Parnell:  

a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony ... Dennis the Constitutional Peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail to be human here is thus not to be Everyman; it is to be a particular kind of man, and of course men differ: "Other fields," the Javanese say, "other grasshoppers." Within the society, differences are recognized, too - the way a rice peasant becomes human and Javanese differs from the way a civil servant does. This is not a matter of tolerance and ethical relativism, for not all ways of being human are regarded as equally admirable by far; the way the local Chinese go about it is, for example, intensely dispraised. The point is that there are different ways; and to shift to the anthropologist's perspective now, it is in a systematic review and analysis of these ... of the Plains Indian's bravura, the Hindu's obsessiveness, the Frenchman's rationalism, the Berber"s anarchism, the American's optimism ... that we shall find out what it is, or can be, to be a man ... we must, in short, descend into detail, past the misleading tags, past the metaphysical types, past the empty similarities to grasp firmly the essential character of not only the various cultures but the various sorts of individuals within each culture, if we wish to encounter humanity face to face. In this area, the road to the general, to the revelatory simplicities of science, lies through a concern with the particular, the circumstantial, the concrete...that is to say, the road lies, like any genuine Quest, through a terrifying complexity ... Clifford Geertz, The Impact Of The Concept Of Culture On The Concept Of Man you walk into the room with your pencil in your hand you see somebody naked and you say "who is that man?" you try so hard but you don't understand just what you'll say when you get home because something is happening here but you don't know what it is do you Mr Jones? ... Bob Dylan, Ballad Of A Thin Man do not go gentle into that good night ... Dylan Thomas". More about Ian:"cliff dweller, parent, teacher, facilitator, student, nomad.".