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* Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> [2005-08-11 17:04]: > From: 'Alan Gutierrez' [mailto:alan-xml-dev@e...] > > What do you think the web will do in the theatre of the absurd > that isn't being done in the real world already? > Use a false argument such as "teach the controversy" to get > political action for an issue in which there is only one side. Political arguments are not true or false, they just are. > It's boobery. It's working. They Creationists have framed the debate in such a way that the debate can be had. That's a coup. > I'm voting for a woman in the next presidential election. Two > boobs are better than one. Fine, fine. I'm not arguing in favor of Intelligent Design, I'm saying that it's benign. My point was, that the 'democratization' of information is a process that is already alive and well, does not require Web 2.0. The argument that democracy is nothing more than mob-rule is old, tired. Enhancing the process of 'democratization' will only make that argument older, ever more tired. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@e... - http://engrm.com/blogometer/index.html - http://engrm.com/blogometer/rss.2.0.xml
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