Steve Kurtz wrote:
> (snip)
>
> In any case, Ray, the above insinuation is not what I've come to expect
> from you. Many people observing the world come to similiar conclusions.
> Consensus of subjective opinions is the closest most of us get to
> describing reality - except, of course, for those 'seers' who claim direct
> pipelines to the truth. :-)
Steve,
No insinuation intended. The simple fact is that people graze through these
lists, & in fact make a point of publishing in the NYTimes and other places that
they got the idea for this and that from some anonymous person on the list.
So don't get your back up. If I thought you did I would say it, not insinuate it.
I don't know Hardin but I do know that the Web lady, I can't remember her name,
who edits one of the big computer mags states simply that she gets most of
her ideas from the Web.
This intellectual capital issue is one that Capitalism has been very poor at dealing
with
even before there was an internet. The issue of property and private property
is all a part of the problems of work and motivation.
Chris Ruess's discussion about his "hired hands" is a part of the same question of
ownership. The "tenant" syndrome if you will. But my statement was aimed at
anyone who would not give credit as MH (and yourself )has been so careful to do. He
has even asked to quote me on the Cherokee issues when he could have simply taken my
bibliography and ran with it.
Finally, a couple of years ago I ran into one of my internet articles from this list,
about the format of the movie business and how it relates to the "flexible"
structures now being used by contemporary management, in the UK paper the
"Independent". I have no doubt because
it was almost line for line the same format with slightly different wording. Never
heard of the writer and he must have perused it and decided it would make a good
article. That's life.
REH
