Paul,

Part of what I have not yet been able to well articulate is that folks
are unlikely to ever figure out the value of the commons and sharing so
long as cooperation narratives are offered primarily as counters to a
prevailing competition narrative. If instead of legitimizing the
competition narrative by offering cooperation as a counter, we cut the
legs out from under the competition narrative itself, it seems to me
that would be more effective. And it's not that hard, because to the
extent the competition narrative is based on Darwin, then it's fully
vulnerable...because survival of the fittest is _not_ a gloss for "Might
makes right", but is simply the tautological observation that what works
works, and that what works in one setting often fails in another.

Or so it seems to me. As I said, this is not well articulated yet.

rl

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