> No, that's not what it means at all. I pressed it into service to say
> that there's no way that individual consumption practices can
> extricate oneself from an exploitative society. You can use free
> software, but you've got to run it on machines made by evil large
> corporations. You can shun meat and spare animals, but what about the
> migrant workers who pick the cucumbers?
>
> One of my favorite little factoids: organic produce requires more
> stoop labor than the ordinary kind. So is it more "moral" to eat
> organic food?
>
> Doug
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There's a wonderful group of people who are looking at different ways of generating a
greater level of public discourse on technological choices in democratic forums
http://www.loka.org/ with the possibility of different ownership/control rights. The
guy who's taken up the challenge in a big way is Richard Sclove. He's written a great
book, "Democracy and Technology" that I would encourage any leftie technophile to
read; it's a great companion to "CyberMarx" by Nick Dyer-Witheford.
Ian