Re: [ga] Interesting Times

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

If I may be so bold;
Are you taking the position that non-IT professionals should not be considered appropriate candidates for voting rights as members of ICANN? And further, the reason is that they are simply too ignorant to participate in the steerage of the vessel. 
I believe in history you will find such examples. As Franklin once wrote of a revolution he was watching " a fool sir is still a fool and the mere fact that you gather them by the multitudes only aggravates the situation". Marx of course shared this point of view, that it would take decades for the proletariat to gain the intelligence for democratic self rule. 
Your personal attacks against me and California appear to be right on the money. Thank you for that insight.
 
Eric

Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hugh Dierker wrote:

> 
> So now I must pose the question to all those screaming for at large 
> representation on the BoD of ICANN. When you are not even one of the 
> individual users why do you think it is important they have a voice? 
> And secondly I ask one of these proclaimers of need, say Jeff, Karl, 
> Danny, Richard, Michael or Sotiris to name a single person that could be 
> elected by an at large that would be a dotcommoner none IT professional?

Franchise is by nature exclusive, I'm afraid. Any fledgling student of 
the political arts could tell you that... dang, just turn on your idiot 
box and take a gander at Arnie, your governor (and future president?) in 
telebabble land. Even in the blessed United States, there are 
qualifications to voting privileges... and to becoming President, at 
least as of this writing... What makes you think ICANN or the Internet 
ought to be any different? You know, for an American, I descry a 
curiously great deal of socialist-borderline-Marxist ideas in your 
ramblings... I suppose if you were on board a cruise ship long enough, 
you'd want to have the passengers take charge of the vessel and make you 
captain. But let me ask you this: What the hell do you know about 
being a captain of a cruise ship? Do you honestly believe that because 
you were a fan of Captain Stubing and the rest of the Love Boat crew, 
that this qualifies you (or any other passenger) to commandeer an ocean 
liner?

SS


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