From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Thu Oct 29 1998 - 10:26:52 MST
At 12:04 AM 10/30/98 +1300, J. Maxwell Legg wrote:
>Ian, what seems evident here is that argument by selective definition is
>not enough and cannot persuade parties. In this thread, for example,
>others would say that politics is about forging and changing coalitions
>and that this definition seems to negate the ability of any individual
>from having or creating political power without the involvement of
>others, as you implied.
>
>There is this problem with general discourse in a way that likely even a
>Platonist would agree that written language is about not being able to
>come to agreement and in fact is more about missing perspectives. What I
>would hope eventually to see is a collective internet rendering of
>presentations that is something even bolder than what crit.org can do.
>I'd like to eventually see an elevation of subject matter on the basis
>of subjective evaluations of features where, by using say e.g., floating
>radio buttons in a sidebar to the subject area, to enable a scoring of
>features so that neural net patterns and/or markov-like chains could be
>developed and forever remain open to revision. Such an eventual global
>valuation of everything via the net is what I foresee. Because my
>software development is in this field, this is my expectation of
>libertarian socialism.
IAN: I certainly believe that libertarianism is
the real "socialism" where we define socialism as
a system that most effectively meets social needs,
and a system directed by the people (a supply and
demand system), whereas what we call socialism is
directed by elite planners (control and command).
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