[MD] Harris and Steve

[Mary]

So, our choices so far include

Oligarchy.  It's the law.  Not precise.
Plutocracy. It's the law.  Confused with the former planet.
Mediocracy. It's the law.  Readers believe it is mediocrity misspelled,
which would be kind of funny in itself.
Mediocrity. It's the law.  Mediocre.

Ok.  Skip the politics.  How about this one?

I feel your pane.



Mary

- The most important thing you will ever make is a realization.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org [mailto:moq_discuss-
> bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Ian Glendinning
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 2:58 AM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Harris and Steve
> 
> John, Mary,
> 
> Media in the most general sense ... mediated means of human social
> communication ... I'd wholeheartedly agree John. But for me the lowest
> common denominators (those easiest to understand with a brain
> encultured by media) represent the simplified extremes.
> 
> BTW I too love
> >> Changing the world one bumper sticker at a time,
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 AM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>  Well, our
> >> friend Wiki lead me to think that a more precise term would be
> plutocracy.
> >>
> >> It's important to me to get it right.
> >
> >
> > Well in that case Mary, let me offer my suggestion, "mediocracy".
>  For it
> > simultaneously aknowledges that the true power is in the hands of the
> media
> > image makers to the populace, at the same time decrying the mediocre
> > homogenization that necessarily occurs when everybody gets their
> values from
> > the same narrow sources AND those sources have to propogate a sorta
> "lowest
> > common denominator" effect which keeps everything from going to any
> > extremes.
> >
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