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["Joe Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>]

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    Y'all keep this up and we'll have to hold the next InterNetWorkers
gathering as a no-holds-barred steel cage event!

    I'll bring the mud/Jell-o. ;-)

Joe K

----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Commercials to Net Appliances -- a Political
Solution


> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Rachel Cox wrote:
> ->Heh. Do I? Gosh, I'm sorry. I meant to sound like someone
> ->who wants voters who care about the issues. Or is that too
> ->elitist?
>
> No, it's not too elitist, but when you couch it in terms of "well I don't
> want *them* [uninformed] voting in *my* [hyperinformed,
> media-saturated] country", it sure as hell sounds like it.
>
> ->  I mean,
> -> I'm sure you know everything about every issue, mind.
> ->
> ->I'm not asking *anyone* to know everything about every issue,
> ->and it strikes me as disingenuous for you to suggest I was;
> ->it's be three or four full-time jobs, as you must well know.
>
> I didn't imply you wanted to have other people know everything about
> everything - just suggested that you did.
>
> My vote has been decided for several months now, and I'm pretty confident
> that in casting it I will be performing not only my civic duty but also
> doing so in a well-informed manner. Leastwise, I'm informed to the point I
> *want* to be informed. Is there a reason to continue paying attention if
> my mind will not change?
>
> ->I *would* like them to care about them, and make the attempt
> ->to find out something about some of them. I don't think that's
> ->a lot to ask of someone who's going to be casting a vote on them.
>
> But that wasn't what you said. You dismissed anyone who was "grabbed" off
> the street and registered to vote as an uninformed ignoramus. And that was
> where my hackles were raised.
>
> ->You're free to fight for a country run by uninformed, apathetic
> ->voters, but I don't think it's a good idea. Of  course, you and
>
> Great! So you're moving to Canada? or somewhere else in the world where
> the population is so much better than here?
>
> ->I have yet to see eye-to-eye on anything that I'm aware of, so
> ->that we disagree on this as well doesn't come as much of a shock.
> ->Indeed, I'm fairly confident that if we ever *do* agree, we'll
> ->probably both be tempted to reexamine our positions.
>
>
> *plonk*
>
> Cheers
> KJ
>
>
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