On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 09:41 AM, Gordon Fitch wrote:
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> If people won't do this, then there's not much use imposing
> righteous institutions on them from above. They won't stick.
>
> -- Gordon
maybe i'm naive, but is an institution by definition or by necessity an imposition from above? isn't the point to actually have institutions that are NOT imposed from above?
i mean, even a set of spokescouncils is an institution if it becomes, well, institutionalized, which is presumably what people like chuck would want. no?
i think brian's hit the nail on the head, myself.
j