On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:44 PM, // ravi wrote:
> Because she was there at this panel and I don’t remember the other names (so I write “Dean and the anarchists”, etc). When you wrote that the audience agreed that “this” was important and it was not going on in Zuccotti, the “this” (in my mind) could be two things. I thought at first that it referred to the actual content of the discussion as outlined by you (“college is prison”, Foucault, Dean’s criticism of “process”, etc). So I wrote my thoughts on why they (the occupiers) might not care about that sort of stuff. The second possibility of what was important and happened at this venue, but not at Zuccotti, is the very process of debates/fights. I responded to that as well. I will also point out that recently there was some post about some language about racism that was modified after some debate - so it doesn’t seem true that debate is foreign to the crowd, or that commitment to politeness rules out debate.
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> I agree that this is getting drawn out. This is my last on this thread,
Just to clarify: the "this" was detailed discussion of strategy (as opposed to tactics) and the presence or lack of agenda in any kind of disputatious way.
Doug