My reflection on "The Emancipated Spectator"

Jacques Ranciere focuses on how the theatre needs to be reformed.  To do so, he believes that the two types of intelligence in people need to be equalized.  The two types of intelligence come in the forms of a knowledgable master, and an ignorant person.
What the ignorant person has to do is close the gap between what he knows, and what he still doesn't know but can learn by the same process as the master did.  And what the master has to do is close the gap between his ignorance and knowledge.
Emancipation can also be looked at as the idea of dismissing the difference between looking and acting, where the spectator is the looker, and the performer is the actor.  This will create an active spectator, who observes, selects, compares his observations with past observations from another time and place, and then interprets his information.
Even if the superior group and the inferior group were to switch roles, the structure stays the same.  Ranciere talks about a "third term" in the process of intellectual emancipation more towards the end of his article.  This third term is the mediation of books.  It is the something that is between the master and the student.  It appears as the "instance of separation, dispossession, and treachery."  Books create the power to translate in your own way what you are looking at.
To better understand the idea of an emancipated spectator, it is important to acknowledge that every spectator is already an actor in their own story, and every actor is in turn the spectator of the same kind of story.
In all of these performances, Jacques Ranciere says "it should be a matter of linking what one knows with what one does not know."  He also believes that "An emancipated community is in fact a community of storytellers and translators."  This calls for spectators who are active interpreters and know how to frame the story of a new adventure in a new idiom.
In "The Emancipated Spectator", Ranciere also talks about the history of workers and realized that it was not a matter of setting free the distance of ignorance and knowledge, but a matter of time vs. space.  These workers were doomed to do nothing after their day of work but to get to bed early to restore there energy for another hard day of work the next day.  They wanted to blur the opposition of members of a collective body and "individuals".  This created a new type of knowledge predicated on the presupposition of "likeness."  The chronicles of this likeness entails the reframing of the relationship between doing, seeing, and saying.  These workers felt that they didn't have enough leisurely time to stroll and look at random as other individuals did.
The way to fix this was to create a "work of translation, showing how empirical stories and philosophical discourses translate each other."  This is where the third term, books come in.  Ranciere states that knowing that "words are only words" can help us better understand how "words, stories, and performances can help us change something in the world we live in." Just don't forget: first we have to equalize all of these intelligences that he has talked about.