Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20050127132813.05bcc790@mail.club-internet.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:40:19 +0100
To: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com>, ga@gnso.icann.org
From: "J-F C. (Jefsey)  Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>
Subject: Re: [ga] Re:  Interesting Times
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At 06:04 27/01/2005, Danny Younger wrote:
>There was a man who was laid to rest in a corner of his small farm in New 
>Rochelle not far from where I live.  He died in poor health and poverty as 
>an alcoholic and as an outcast.  He never established a political society 
>or organization and was not responsible for a single reforming measure 
>even though he was elected to public office.  But this man will not be 
>forgotten -- he authored the pamphlet, "Common Sense"; he wrote "The 
>Rights of Man" as well as "The Age of Reason" -- he was Thomas Paine.
>
>Paine taught us that each age of man has the right to establish a 
>political system which satisfies its needs.  Our Internet Age also 
>requires a system that will satisfy our needs.  There are times when 
>society requires a firebrand, a Thomas Paine, to point out that which we 
>all know, but often fail to vocalize.  We have our firebrands in the WSIS 
>process, in the blogs and in the civil society leadership.  Why is it 
>important they have a voice?... so that common sense and rights are 
>brought to the forefront of a new revolution, a revolution that is calling 
>for transparency and democracy in the management of the Internet.

I think you said all when you said "There was a man" and then "We have our 
firebrands". What we have to learn to live with - and the GA, IDNO, 
icannatlarge efforts shown it, is the transition from a single Paine in an 
open world to a large number of Paines in a single globe. Not that easy. 
Using our old solutions of hierarchy and democracy does not work in the 
granularity and the subsidiairty of our today's world: getting defined and 
accepted representation by competent motivation (consumer organizations, 
@large, etc.)

jfc