Your first post echoes my discomfort with the state of the public discourse. While I am not eager to enter the fray on the current (in my opinion rather unproductive) battle lines of liberal vs. conservative, I am looking for better ways in which the disourse might be structured. Coming from architecture, I started to look at how information supports (or obstructs) the design/planning/political discourse, and debeloped some ideas that I wrote up in a book 'The Fog Island Argument' (Xlibris 2007) that you might be interested in. I started to write a presentation of these ideas for a German web site, which would have been a series of 6 or 8 articles; which apparently did not fly in their blogging format. More if interested, Thorbjoern Mann:
Centrist: neither Democratic nor Republican by commitment. I concur with the sentiment. Disenchanted: I concur. Anyone who isn't, isn't paying attention. I have an action plan for change. See my blog. http://philipics1.blogspot.com/
Very simple instructions, none that are in the least objectionable. Stay tuned for more.
Note: not me.
I applaud what you've accomplished here.
I can't tell if you're aware of the irony that you've taken your nom de blog from one of the most conservative voices in the SF universe.
I'm not him.
I'm also not the character.
But I do think that the idea that discussion stripped of the meta-game of identity still has merit.
Calling Fox News conservative and ignoring every other television news outlet is either a joke or the result of thick rose-colored glasses.
Well, this is certainly ancient. But, yes, there's a qualitative difference between Fox and everybody else. More than there used to be, even.
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