On 3/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Kolakowski</b> <<a href="mailto:jasonkolakowski@yahoo.com">jasonkolakowski@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is an interesting piece about public opinion, democracy, and policy decisions. Its application to our concerns I will leave to others' wisdom.<br> The author blurb is:<br> James S. Fishkin is the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and the director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University. He is the author of Voice of the People and (with Bruce Ackerman) Deliberation Day.
<br> The link is:<br> <a href="http://bostonreview.net/BR31.2/fishkin.html">http://bostonreview.net/BR31.2</a><a href="http://bostonreview.net/BR31.2/fishkin.html">/fishkin.html</a></blockquote><div><br><br> Jason -<br>
<br>Thank you for this very interesting link. The item makes clear some of the weaknesses of simple democracy and how certain structural frameworks can improve the effectiveness of social decision-making. <br><br>I think we are now beginning to exploit networking technologies (some intentionally, and others as byproducts of entertainment and personal interests) to facilitate effective social decision-making based on increasing awareness of our shared values and increasing awareness of methods that work.
<br><br>- Jef<br><a href="http://www.jefallbright.net">http://www.jefallbright.net</a><br>Increasing awareness for increasing morality<br>Empathy, Energy, Efficiency, Extropy<br><br></div></div>