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 Regards Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bullard, Claude L (Len) and 'Alan Gutierrez' [mailto:alan-xml-dev@e...] I respond as follows: The design of a false argument to "teach controversy" in search of generating political action for issues which have but one side is a standard problem in a top down (federalism type of political environment). I agree political arguments are not true or false, but I do not agree they just are. They are based in need and greed. I Agree: Political arguments are designed... I disagree, ... Creationists have framed the debate..instead I think politicians have framed the debate based on their needs and greed. I disagree Intelligent Design ... is benign, instead it has the same purpose as any other system of federalism to make a few very powerful and the rest very weak. I disagree, that..the process that causes the surrender of a people to a belief is not a technology. Such a process can be controlled by technology and by gating access to just about every kind of information in order to manipulate victims. The process that manipulates involves the careful and highly technical allocation of information such that victims are allowed to access only certain select things (like certain books, certain websites, and by other means of gating such as pricing out of reach the access to information [the cost will keep many out]. The tools that federalist-type politicians use to manipulate the mind of their victims include: 1. the classification of all information that might be used to discover the truth as top secret. 2. the approval of authors and textbooks that can be taught 3. the approval of books that can be placed in the library 4. the control of access to websites 5. the use of the monopoly powers of the patent and copyright to a. assure ownership b. control access by price c. control access by number of copies published d. etc. 6. the restriction on who is eligible to view information. 7. the restriction on who is eligible to publish information. 8. the restriction on who is license to distribute information. 9. the use of the allocation of federal top down funds to force the adoption by approving local authorities. The result of the process of controlling access to information may be the surrender of the mind to a political system. Such a system is based on propaganda and "education" is the best place to practice propaganda. I have for years said: Education is a bureaucracy, learning is a biological process. Freedom is the unimpeded access to the space that is bounded at all its borders by infinity. Pretty much that is the current situation on the Internet, but copyright and patents laws, laws of access by type of content, and laws that impose liabilities on those who allow to be distributed the publications of others are all limiting open collaboration and restricting user access to more things every hour. Moreover, these restrictive laws made by lawmakers (patents and copyrights are eliminating unimpeded interaction. Impede the interaction and lose the most beneficial aspect of social humanity: "learning", achieved by inserting the results of interactions to assemble products made by collaborative expressions from a society of human minds. Democracy is the result of a cooperative and nearly mandatory interaction. To be truly democratic it must include all of the persons to be subjected to the democracy. It must hear from all of the people who wish to express a concern and it much fairly consider all of the issues before it can establish a rule by which all must abide. The rule that a democracy establishes must be the result of a collaborative effort by all members from the lowest member to the tallest member and each element must be the wish of the majority. The laws made by a democracy cannot be law made by an elite elected [congress type] body. Republicanism eliminates the involvement of the masses. Republicanism substitutes a small group (called elected aristocrats) as ruler of the nation or of the process that determines the rule of a society. The Internet is a society. Republicanism differs from the King and Court only by a periodic popular vote for those few who will be the political manipulators [representatives]. But the vote for representatives in a top down type republican government is itself, as is the mind set of the voters, subject to political manipulation. It is the political manipulation bias that usually dictates that only aristocrats can actually be elected participants in the political congresses. I agree with the point that "democratization' of information is a process that is already alive and well, and that it does not require Web 2.0. But those who want to control insist on Web 2.0 and then they will want Web 3.0. The following paragraph [you presented] does not define a political process. Instead it defines a system of ownership created by the rule of law. Those who make the laws direct the ownership of the means of production into certain camps. Just as America directed by rule of law the ownership of the lands that the American Indian thought belonged to all. Ownership of the means of production was the harsh reality of the feudal system, it was the strength of the king and the source of his war making powers. your statement: "There is no issue of democracy here. You don't get to vote on the design of the 757 engine and you don't get to vote on the means and processes of evolution. " Maybe you don't get to vote on the 757 engine design, but surely you get to vote on the assumptions on which the design is based and on the risks that are inherent in the design that a user must assume. Of course you must have access to the information necessary before you can make a rational vote. I think the key difference in a democracy and a republic or other federalism is access to the information. Top down restricts access to information to but a limited few, while a bottom up democracy insists that all persons have access to all knowledge, all of the time. sterling > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > 
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