Re: Classification Table

[John Gelles <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 1995, Bruce McFarling wrote:
> ...
> 	Where's the radical populist and radical Marxist
> categories on the survey, John?
>
> Bruce McFarling, Knoxville
> brmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [appended message from Bill Mitchell deleted on inconsistencies
   by liberals in response to tax questions in survey.]
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	Since coming to PKT I have been several times advised
	by wise "old timers" not to try to classify PKT opinion:
	It is too varied and, possibly, inconsistent within a
	single stream of thought.

	I knew this would be the case, but acted unwisely in
	trying to get a fix on why Gingrich and Paul Simon can
	make such fools of the American people and attempt so
	much damage to their future in the face of PHD's whose
	profession is to stop them.

	In all events, one way out of the impasse of classification
	of thought or thinkers is to invent a more effective
	content addressable discipline:

		Internet threads are one attempt to develop
	content addressability. But they are so "free form" they
	evaporate without leaving a trail. I do not forsee the
	"free form thread" as sufficient for discipline building;
	although I believe it is necessary.

		A small series of basic documents devoted to
	doctrine within the intellectual capacity of Congress
	and devoted to politcal economy is called for.

		Were such dnyamic documents in the process of
	construction on Internet, individuals could address their
	words, vote on sentences and paragraphs to move them forward,
	and stuff all notion of pigeon holes for people in the
	trash.

		In a similar vein, a hierarchical sit-at table
	arrangement described in the "Party" in my web site, attempts
	to do virtually the same thing.  Perhaps I will try to prototype
	a few sit-at tables right here on PKT. These tables might be
	limited to three instead of nine members because of the
	extremely "high bandwidth" of the PKT subscriber. Ugh.

		Tennis, any one?
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