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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Adam makes a good point, which gets
at the central flaw of the "rule by consensus" thing here - which
unfortunately means - limited, unannounced consensus building - (wikimoney?? -
sorry guys - eughh! ) - and untabulated results that tend to fall to the
propreitor for a "last word" - something Captain Jim considers a very mixed
bag - children need to take care of themselves after all... Politics, in other
words - its not something that people can even conceptualize, let alone deal
with well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>But also, the fact that Adam is still around and conducting
himself with ( apparently ) increasing degrees of consideration and
intelligence - (putting sentences together - coherence, making a point )
which might be a sign that Adam has been benefitting from the WP. What
could be better than that?</DIV>
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<DIV>And best of all, Zoe seems to have learned -
(excuse me for saying this) from her Old archnemesis Adam -( And new one
- Michael,) that the role of Stalwart Politico-Policeperson comes with
a price of having a whole bunch of threads to deal with - None of which
are worth tripping too much on. Unless its pure vandalism - problems
are just too subjective to just jump to judgements about. At some
point, Zoe was using so few words in her messages, I thought she
would stop using English altogether and start using Hangi to write stuff
like "Adam bad." - Just two or three pictographs possibly. Quite
efficient. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Not to dig too much on Zo, or
to excuse Adam for his documented, historical, lack of having better things
to do.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And all this ultimately reveals the fact that
the WP can't possibly be anything that fits into a tidy conceptual mold
- as ideo-dogmatism would suggest - and all dogmatists
realize, at some point, that "a bigger shovel" (quoth the Clinton)-
and the resulting deeper hole - doesnt solve
anything.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-SM</FONT></DIV>
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