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From: scott@vicorp.UUCP (Scott Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Global Cultural Prototype
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Date: 13 Oct 89 15:18:59 GMT
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I was of two minds when I read this posting. 1) this looks interesting,
someone's put a lot of thought into this and 2) the ovarall aproach is
so detailed, there's little room for input at this point. It's been
developed to a point that discussion is limited to details such as 
which language to use.

Nevertheless, I *do* have input about the overall approach, echoing some of
the the esperanto thread already started. It looks like diversity
is being traded off for compatibility. To my mind replacing cultural elements
(such as language or social structure) in a uniform way is a mistake. While
diversity causes a lot of strife, that's just a symptom of the problem, not
the cause. The root causes do lie in cultural and social systems, but I
think there are ways to change this without coming up with one 
socio/cultural solution for everyone.
                                  - scott