Diverse worldviews in an English city and maybe Venezuela too


Author: Doctor Terence Rajivan Edward (or 0161__Rajivan, if that helps)
Abstract. British social anthropology today often involves worldview description. In this paper, I try to add to the project but somewhat speculatively. I present two contrasting worldviews, one of which belongs to some fans and one of which, I speculate, belongs to some managers and their whole families even, apart from some infants perhaps. One worldview, or evaluation system in this case, prizes rare flowers metaphorically speaking (or flashy rare flowers, to be more precise). You read a lot of essays - on consent and government, for example - and they are competent but much the same and then there is somehow an unusual and interesting one: you prize that. When you are first watching tennis and a player uses their racket to hit the ball through the legs - a tweener, it is called - that awakens your interest. In football - soccer - remember rabona kicks! The other worldview rejects interest in rare flowers. Work with assumptions about what is normal and ignore anything rare. Imagine that I stop paying my service charge - I will pay it soon - to suggest to the apartment management that they should not charge me: this will be a site of interest once I am gone. A standard procedure (!) is surely initiated to ensure that pay occurs. The management assumes that people will pay and assumes that anyone who does not should be dealt with in this way. They don’t get involved with “Is this non-payer a rare flower and some exception should be made?” But how do you get into the role of management anyway? To make an individual suitable for this, maybe a whole family have to give up interest in rare flowers and move to simply making general assumptions, with no exceptions. Not just the clever manager but also his less clever family members, who assist in various ways and have various privileges, all do this. In the early days, it is like a strange cult: “No, ignore that son,” a father says to a boy who takes an interest in a tweener or rabona kick or unusual consent essay. (I think this approach is not Bob Dylan by the way, whose approach I suppose is “Maybe we can gather rare flowers sometimes, but not always, okay.” In this simplified portrait, the position does not exist.) The plan is perhaps to reincorporate the interest later, but no one among them figures out how. (Anyway, there are parts of life in which one does not prize rare flowers, I suppose. One just wants an ordinary meal, say, which one often eats. “No, I am 100% rare flowers. Do you get that?”?)
Draft version: version 2 (28th June 2026; v1 4th January 2025)


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I was listening to some Nepali popular music. I was about to stop and suddenly I heard some sounds like rock music and I wondered, "Has this person got me exactly right? You belong to this social class and at this precise point, you think to stop listening and thus I do this to keep you listening." But this is surely not how you make popular music.
What do I know of Nepal though? And what of pop music? I should stick to the world I know really.