Re: [ga] Interesting Times

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugh Dierker wrote:

> 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? 

I don't really have to, ICANN has already done so.

> And further, the reason is that they are simply too ignorant to 
> participate in the steerage of the vessel.

Well, to be honest, I don't think I'd feel too comfortable if the 
average guest on the Jerry Springer show was at the helm of the vessel. 
 Would you?

> 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. 

The very notion that Marx believed that this could evetually happen at 
all, is where his brand of "democracy" differs from that of Benjamin 
Franklin.

> Your personal attacks against me and California appear to be right on 
> the money. Thank you for that insight.

Pardon me? In no way shape or form did I "attack" California or anyone 
else, for that matter.  If you choose to view my response as an attack, 
well, there's really not much I can do to revamp your hermeneutical 
apparatus and approach.

SS

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