From: | Giorgio Menon <giorgio.menon(at)pd.infn.it> |
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Date: | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:01:50 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Repeted answer to Antonio |
The possible solutions you are talking about have to fight against
the ruling
culture that wants smart people own a fast, powerful, big car. As
long as
people keep receiving thousands of messages a day with this exact same
meaning, i think your proposal more bicycles and less cars will
never been
considered.
Of course.
That's what communication is for: trying to convince people. TheYes, but you surely know the old Latin ditto:
elites are
immensely more communicative that we are, and this is the real problem.
We don't have access to the media, they own them: they democratically
bought them. We could have done it, but we didn't. Our fault, no?
"Errare umanum est; perseverare diabolicum"
(into English: "To err is human; to keep steadily on doing it is
diabolical")
I question whether the fault is recoverable, and -- affirmatively --
how. This is why I am discussing democracy