on 10/16/07 7:18 AM, Andrew Gray at shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I've written before about the project sliding deeper and deeper into a 'siege mentality' - us versus them, the outsiders are big and evil and scary, we must protect ourselves, we must build bigger walls, etc. Both the response to external criticism and the "attack sites" thing are examples of this - but they're also both the sort of thing that *perpetuate* it, help drive the community into a more and more insular, paranoid, unhappy state.
I agree with you, Andrew.
Also, there are those who would warn us about the "enemies within". The persons who have arrived later to the party seeing things from a different perspective; a perspective they would rather we not explore.
Marc Riddell