[ Subject line changed to reflect the diversion of this sub-thread ] Danny Younger wrote:
Milton Mueller (on the governance list):
"I wish I could convey how amusing you all sound, lost in your metaphors of "new" kaleidoscopic realities. In the meantime, the same old power holders, using the same old mechanisms and a few subtle new ones, are running the game. And some of us in civil society are soooooo easily co-opted by being invited onto consultative mechanisms like WGIG or ALAC that have no effect on the actual regime but somewhow make people feel important and thereby transform them into enthusiastic free workrs and sometimes apologists for the institutions that have duped them."
I'm certainly glad at least that we provide amusement to someone, it's better than providing nothing at all. This kind of whining serves no purpose, unless it's to tell us that we're just pawns and that only Certain Sage Observers of Civil Society possess the insight on how to free us from the Evil ICANN Empire. I'm amazed that there are enough resources on the ICANN mailserver to accommodate the ego and condescension in that message. Please stop adding to the noise with patronizing trash like this. If you truly agree with what Milton said, Danny, you wouldn't be here because this is all apparently a waste of our time according to him. I'm not yet ready to write off the process, despite the early chaos, though posts like this make it tougher to get to the real things we need to deal with. The headaches of participating here, so far, outweigh any sense of importance I could possibly extract from it. At least ICANN staffers don't berate the people they're trying to enlighten. Cheers, - Evan