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Showing posts with label FoWL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FoWL. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Considering the FoWL Manifesto

They have written of "the inviolability of history."

What is "the inviolability of history?" Who will tell me what it applies to? I suspect that it means that big lies are unfair history, but who knows?

I do know that  someone sees it as an important part of the "Manifesto" of FoWL. It seems it is meant to be one of the broad ideals to which FoWL are committed. It is number two on their list of five.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

FoWL Manifesto Continued

Among "Broad ideals" are "Privacy for the weak" and " "Transparency for the powerful."
These sound right and good to me if "privacy" means privacy for communications which effects principally the participants and "transparency" refers to communication which effects many beyond the participants.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

"The Inviolability of History"

The second of the five broad ideals of the FoWL manifesto speaks of "the inviolability of history." 

What do they mean by "the inviolability of history"  What it seems to mean to me is that history is history. Perhaps there is a hint of a hope that the men who hold it are honest. What is your guess?

Hard to join up with an outfit the members of which speak in a way so difficult for me to understand.