Re: [WDDM] Strategy [Rossin]

[Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>]

Fred Gohlke ha scritto:
> Good Morning, Dr. Rossin

Good evening, Gohlke,

please spare me the Dr. - as I'm retired from that job ;-)
> I apologize for being slow to grasp the meaning of the Simpol and
> flexible-learning links
> you provided.  I'm afraid my own mind was so absorbed with
> contemplating an electoral
> method that allows meaningful participation by all citizens that I
> didn't make the jump to
> teaching ourselves and our children to be open-minded.

That's common attitude, and a common mistake IMHO. Let people set up DIY
the
electoral method they like, without restricting them into your pet one.
Better you look
for providing them with more criticism in their minds as a method of
questioning the
authority, whichever it may be, so that they will not ask their pet
political authority for
an electoral method that allows meaningful partecipation under guidance.
> re: "Please, do not consider any 'the Authority' being external
>      to the subject.  Please consider that each subject - each
>      one of us - has a slot inside one's brain network waiting
>      for some whichever image or symbol or idea to pull into and
>      make it thereby become 'the Authority'."
>
> This is the part I completely missed.  I interpreted 'the Authority'
> as being a governmental
> authority rather than our own 'internal authority' that guides our acts.
>
> Addressing our 'internal authority' for the purpose of making it more
> flexible is a complex
> task I've never considered.  At first blush, it seems to me an
> approach best undertaken by
> academics from whom it can filter down to educators and, ultimately,
> to the lay population.
Please, do not ask your pet academic authority for an educational method
that allows
meaningful partecipation under guidance.
Better you DIY  (Do It Yourself)

> It is a fundamental approach that, when successful, will benefit
> society. However,
> accomplishing it will be a serious challenge, made more difficult by
> the misleading
> deceptions of marketing, the manipulation of public attitudes by the
> media, and the
> focus on trivialities like sports and computer gaming that tend to
> suppress thoughtful
> reflection by individuals.
>
> My own thoughts have been directed toward creating an electoral method
> based on
> participation, implemented in an environment that employs individual
> judgment to select
> the best of our number as our governmental representatives.  It is my
> opinion that
> judgment, like any other quality, needs exercise to reach its full
> potential.  This leads
> me to believe creating an electoral process that relies on people's
> judgment will be
> a self-improving process (as suggested by Dr. Alasdair Macintyre.)
>
> Although I believe our views are complementary, the gap between them
> may be difficult
> to bridge.  Is there, do you think, a way to meld them?
>
> Fred Gohlke
I think, dialectic discussion providing information helps bridging, in
due time.

What is very difficult, IMHO, it is making  fundamentalist-minded people
change their minds.
When a fellow is addicted to the ideal consent of his/her internal
authority, it is necessary
that he/she at least scrapes the bottom of the real barrel and finds
nothing, before changing


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