Gnodal Journal

If people with widely divergent opinions agree on something, is that to be taken as more than mere concensus on one specific? Probably not … but what gives rise to such a constellation?

Anyhow, this breakdown of opinions on the issue of universal heath insurance brings this to a painful point: peek this typological breakdown … now, ponder this: if we could explicate the views of each of the groups who agree, wouldn’t that serve to clarify just what the “Enterprisers” are choking on?

(Supplemantary: how come fewer “Disadvantaged Democrats” support this than “Liberals”?)

PoV … right. Now, moving along:

I suspect that a rigorous dialectical analysis (dialogics?) would evidence that a number of perspectives are valid, credible, and plausible. To revert to the vernacular: there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

And so decisions are then derived, quite properly, according to the human values at play: here we would see the play of various principles.

The point to the exercise is always that a) most people cannot put forward arguments in support of their opinions and b) most of those few supporting arguements are simply wrong.

What comes to mind is that rationality needs to get its foot in the door of public argumentation and that it does so. But it does so again and again and again with only slight progress: each victory gains little and every defeat is costly. What the “Participatory Deliberation” system produces using the POV method is a set of substantial foundation blocks.

Is this of value? Is anything except material wealth?
Does this matter? Does anything except brute power?

“The great PC rip and replace – You could live without 64 bits and dual-core, but not hardware virtualization — it’ll cost you” and “Sending software to do hardware’s job – In-hardware support for server virtualization is lacking, but that wasn’t always the case” by InfoWorld’s Tom Yager

“Intel speeds up rollout of PC virtualization technology”

“Intel will advance virtualization development“

*This is a version of material I posted in my LJ: hfx_ben. I lost my 7Gig HD on Sunday … that’s the third time in less than two years (a 2 Gig drive last spring, and my laptop fall of 2003). Three hardware failures in well over a decade, since !thinks! 1987, my first XT. Poverty is a crushingly crude set of inter-locking processes and dynamics.*

Anyhow: email from Richard K Moore today (does that name ring bells?) … his letter resonated deeply with what I’ve been saying all this while about “participatory deliberation” – his letter