<div dir="ltr">Michael,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:44 AM, michael gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This was just sent to the Community Informatics elist by an old friend/colleague who has been working in the grassroots ICT trenches since there were such and probably before (currently mostly with US Amerindian folks in New Mexico…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It rather sums up my response to Andrew (and I’m looking forward to Andrew’s response to me… i.e. it is isn’t simply about substituting one inadequate system of governance for another one which seems to have its own (and potentially worse sets of inadequacies and limitations) but rather of finding ways forward to deepen and enrich what we already have with what we now have come into possession of…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I agree completely with what you write above. However, I think that you feel that the Westphalian system of "democracy" is what we "have now", while many of us on these lists feel that MSism is what we "have now".</div>
<div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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