On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 06:24, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > On 23:34 06/12/02, Stephen Waters said: > >On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 19:30, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > > > > > > "concerted net keeping", > > > >this is exactly what I think of when I think "cooperative" :) probably > >due to the student coops we have on/near campus... > > Dear Stephen, > Each country has its culture. Our French culture roots in 1700 years of > small fiefs gathered as a large kingdom by servant kings, impressed by the > Church bishops type of simple hierachy (Canonic law). Authority is a service. your description of the French system sounds a lot like the failed American experiments in confederacy (Articles of Confederation and later, the Confederate States of America). I haven't researched it, but I'd guess the local control system worked better in smaller areas with more homogeneity. In the States, Georgian planters and Boston blue-bloods had a very hard time kowtowing to each others' needs in the central gov't of the Articles. Massachusetts said, "send troops!" Georgia said, "send money!" And that was as far as they got! But I agree, I think a broad base of local control with the central part taking orders from the localities is workable on the Net, given its narrow mission. I've always thought a P2P, freenet style system with some basic, sane rules for adding to the library of names and numbers would be really neat. I just have no idea how to code it, yet. :) > This so true that this management style is named in French "concertation" > and is used all the time: The word does not even exist in English to the > point that "concertation" in English means the opposite, ie contention. I have to say something about this hint of Structuralism, though. Just because there's no one-word label (or multi-word idiom) for a concept in a language doesn't mean those native speakers haven't learned the idea. For example, there's a very real fight in the Boy Scouts of America, right now, over this issue (central vs local control). It also carries a lot of weight in Texas. (remember Bush being criticized for having experience only as a governer of a state where the governer has no power?) As always, I appreciate your thoughts, Jefsey, -s
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