xmca-folk,
In appreciation of the lively, creative process that happens on xmca, allow
me to say that it astounds me to think that my little question about: how
many concensed on the rules issue has morphed into a proposal for the
institutionalization (i.e., incorporation as rule for participating in xmca)
of a fascinating tertiary artifact that Eugene likes to play with. FAR
OUT!!!
All of it, including the voting, is a very neat historiette of the relation
between human purposes (as expressed in all the threads that led up to the
creation of the xmca voting page) and the institutionalization of rules. We
even had guerilleros throwing bombs in the streets while the voting was
going on. Really, too too far out.
Paul H. Dillon
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Diamondstone <diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: at least!
> Eva, as usual, your reading is remarkably right on. i made the
> same point in my previous message. As for the voting booth, for those
> who haven't visited, the ballot is open to expansion by any options YOU
may
> want to include. Here's one:
>
> Every newcomer to xmca should go immediately to the voting booth so that
> they can immediately become participant in the definition of the community
> they will join.
>
> Judy
>
>
>
> >
> >Anyway, all in all, I take Eugene's implementation as a sendup of
American
> >legalism, rather than as an endorsement -- I may, naturally be totally
> >wrong. But it IS a bit of a funny reversal to frame our Russian Mafioso
#1
> >= Eugene as a representative of American cultural Imperialism. Who knows,
> >if it had been possible for him to get a professorate in Educational
> >psychology in the USSR in the 80s he might also have been living with one
> >foot on each side of the Atlantic today.
> >
> >Eva
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
> Graduate School of Education
> Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
> 10 Seminary Place
> New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
>
>
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