The Importance of the Paritcular in Third World Development

As we have observed throughout our philosophic careers, the duality of general vs. particular is a highly abstactable concept that applies across all fields of intellectual endeavor due to it's importance in the organization of knowledge. We see also that it applies in Easterly's duality of planners vs. searchers; planners being individuals who focus on big, "utopian" efforts of top down development and therefore emphasizing the general; and searchers being individuals who focus on local small scale, endogenous economic activties, who therefore emphasize the particular. Easterly rightly emphasizes an appreciation of the particular in this circumstance, citing various statistics about the overall failure of huge projects. However, being a total hippie who meditates and loves the "general" in every sense of the word, (particular/general, body/soul, material/immaterial, business/household, utility/idealism), I still believe that have, not the practices, but ideals of general utopia and welfare is right(especially by my duality list). pce and love guys. Tune in, but don't drop out....or maybe if thats your cup of tea.