Hi Folks The results of the Call for Votes for July 2004 are shown below.
This month's topic is 3) From LILA Chapter 24: "The end of the twentieth century in America seems to be an intellectual, social and economic rust-belt, a whole society that has given up on Dynamic improvement and is slowly trying to slip back to Victorianism, the last static ratchet-latch." Lila was published in 1991 (and obviously written prior to its publication). The end of the 20th century in America included arguably important social events like the spread of the internet, arguably important economic events like the stock-market bubble, arguably important scientific/intellectual advances in computer technology, genetics, chaos theory, quantum physics, etc. etc. Given that the 20th century in America (or anywhere else for that matter) is firmly behind us now, is it still fair to say that its end was an "intellectual, social and economic rustbelt"? And if so, then what sort of intellectual, social and economic 'advances' could have prevented the rusting? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please make sure that you have read the rules etc. for this list (they're reproduced after the vote results) PLEASE DON'T FORGET: 2 posts per member per week No HTML Fire away! ========================================= VOTING RESULTS Votes for topics 1) 2 2) 2 3) 3 Voters and Selection HORSE - 1 RICK - 1 MARTY JORGENSEN - 2 PI - 2 DMB - 3 DOSS - 3 MARK MAXWELL - 3 MOQ FOCUS RULES, REMEDIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1) Members must have read both ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE and LILA. 2) LILA'S CHILD by Dan Glover with annotations by Robert Pirsig is also *highly* recommended. 3) Members may post only two messages per week (except for topic-question suggestions, voting, and Opinions). 4) Every post must be relevant to the topic-question. 5) Members must express themselves clearly, concisely and courteously. 6) Members may not use html email nor send attachments. 7) Although there is no strict word-limit on posts, members are asked to try and keep posts to a reasonable length. 8) The MF moderator reserves the right to block any posts which break these rules. 9) If a member believes his or her post has been unjustly blocked by the moderator, the moderator's decision may be appealed one time to the full Steering Committee. The decision of the Steering Committee is final. 10) Posts which are blocked from MF by the moderator should not be posted to MD without the express permission of the moderator or the Steering Committee. Reposting to MD in the absence of such permission could result in action from the Discussion Facilitators ranging from a gentle warning and reminder of the forum rulesto permanent removal from one or both lists. 11) (a) "Topic-Hijacking" - Because experience has taught us that allowing the MF topics to spill over into MD quickly kills the activity on the MF list, the Steering Committee respectfully requests that members do not carry MF topics into the MD forum until the MF discussion of the topic is officially over. (b) "Suggestion-Hijacking" - Similarly, it is respectfully requested that members do not initiate discussions in the MD based on topic-suggestions offered in the MF by othermembers, which have not yet been voted upon, without first securing the permission of the member who made the suggestion. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
