> A "neo-Epicurean ecology" sounds vaguely benign (though I don't know
> what it actually means), but "administrative competences" &
"conflict
> resolution forums" (especially when they come together in the age of
> multinational neo-colonialism, reminding me of East Timor for
> instance) sound unfortunately technocratic (though again I don't
have
> a clue what concrete forms you think such ideas should take).
>
> Yoshie
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Heaven forbid one should have vaguely benign sentiments on a Saturday
evening :-)! Would not the society we seek prefer competence to power
as one of many organizing principles of civic administration including
in the realm of conflict resolution? Or is there no bureaucracy in the
future?
Ian