*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