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RE: bohemians, gentry

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L (Len)'" <clbullar@i...>, Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Subject: RE: bohemians, gentry
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:53:53 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

> Saying it is "just politics" is maybe belittling. 

Sorry, I don't mean to belittle. There are politics in every human endeavor.


> It is need and that is always a local politic. 
> The problem is a local politic going global at 
> the point of the standards sword. 

There are times when the personal interests of those who hold the reins of
power conflict with the interest of those subordinate.  There is a power
stuggle here, although I'm starting to think it's not between data-heads and
doc-heads, nor between pedants and free-thinkers. I think it's fundamentally
and issue of representation and perceived disenfranchisement of the
majority.

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