Re: real changes

[lsi <lsi@lsi.clara.net>]

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...so, once we know the solution requires social change, rather 
than better police work, we can do something constructive.  
Nobody can say what sort of social change is required, but nobody 
has to -- all that is necessary is awareness that change is 
required, and the ability to change.... and then society will evolve 
into a form better suited to the environment it finds itself in.

[environment = five interdependent factors: natural (climate etc), 
economic, social, technological, political]

core point = let society evolve

key concept = society is a self-regulating organism just like every 
other entity in this universe and it evolved for 4.5 billion years just 
fine _without_ better police work ...

But, we cannot just walk up and disband all law and law 
enforcement.  Some people, for example, don't agree.  Therefore, 
as a society, we should _discuss_ these issues.  

Therefore, to "do our bit" as best we can, we should facilitate 
discussion.  It is this that will free our collective greivances and let 
us work together.  

My personal take on facilitating discussion means collecting info of 
all sorts, and disseminating it through multiple distribution 
channels, such as email, websites, CD-ROM.  And learning as 
much as possible about hardware and software and internet, and 
helping as much as possible other people using them (when they 
ask).

That's why I am on this list, why I work in IT, and why I am writing 
this email..

Law enforcement treats the symptoms.  Communication addresses 
the cause.

<clears throat> ahem OK just FIVE seconds of poison to some 
people on this list: economists have studied markets for some time 
and it has been noticed that more competition is better for a given 
market than less competition.  Competition increases the quality of 
goods available, while reducing the price, and optimising the 
efficiency of the market.  This model is the source of deregulation 
in many telecoms, utility and other state-dominated markets.  

....but the point IS, that if markets perform better without regulation, 
why wouldn't people?

Stuart

PS: when you actually try this stuff, eg, facilitating communication, 
you find some people are actually closed to the idea of sharing 
themselves.  These are usually the ones who need to share.  It 
might seem rude but really, they might hurt someone if they 
harbour their feelings.  They have a responsibility... this 
unwillingness to communicate is the problem we are facing.  How 
to cure all the hurt in the world?  Group therapy on the internet of 
course.  But getting those people online and letting them sort 
themselves out is more than one lifetime can take... unless I have 
help.. which is what anyone who has made it to here is doing, 
cheers dudes.  Bit by bit... if everyone swept in front of their door, 
the whole world would be clean.

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. ^   Stuart Udall
.~X\  email: stuart@cyberdelix.net
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..revolution through evolution


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