"Thomas Lunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for your detailed comments. On one point we have agreement Douglas,
>we have both got our dates set wrong on our computer. I was puzzeled that
>your message was at the bottom of my date ordered inbox - really, Friday,
>Feb 27, 1920 is further than I ever dared to err.
It may be much worse than you think - the date of Doug's post shows on
my VMS machine as Sun, Aug 2, 2099. Could be some serious y2k problems
in your mailreader...
As to the main substance of this thread, I'm quite enjoying it, as
it goes a long way to puncturing the sort of vacuous rhetoric surrounding
the subject of how our society can be fixed. We can all (those of us
who are awake and paying attention) see the problems, but it's going
to take a real nuts-and-bolts approach to do something about it,
not just `we all get together and [magically] fix it'. Education
and public discourse can be part of the solution, but only in the
sense of getting the issues on the table. The actual work is going
to involve getting our hands dirty, taking risks in public policy
by actually manifesting non-trivial changes in society, and the hardest
part is going to be hammering out what those changes will be, and
accumulating the political will to implement them.
-Pete Vincent
