Charles Moyer wrote: << Is there any way the members of a list can vote? Wei believes or says he believes in democracy. Too bad we can't find out.>> This is an interesting issue to discuss. I assume this is the answer to my question about what topics you would find engaging. It raises a number of secondary questions. 1. Is there a way members of the list can vote? Of course there is. Simply pose the question, and ask people to cast their votes. 2. Vote on what? For instance, we could vote on whether "INTERPRETATION X" of Ezra Pound's work is correct. On whether Charles Moyer's interpretation of Ezra Pound is correct. There are many things we could vote on. 3. "Too bad we cannot find out". Of course you can. You can contact the list director; I believe there is a list command which can be used to produce a complete list of all participants. 4. We could also vote to exlude certain interpretations of Pound. For example we could vote to exclude any Nietzschean interpretations of Pound, or to exclude any interpretations of Pound which mention the fact that he was a fascist. Or we could vote to ban certain individuals from the list. We could vote to ban any individual who mentions Spengler, or we could ban any one who mentions the phrase "class conflict." 5. DO YOU, Charles Moyer, believe in democracy? I think you might. But if you do NOT, why would you want to vote about anything on this list, or anywhere else? Could you make your position clear on this issue (and if you like, you might want to say if you think Ezra Pound's anti-democratic tendencies are retrograde for his era, roughly the same for his intellectual contemporaries, or if his is a trend setting view, a "philosophy for the future," so to speak.) We could conclude with a quote from Nietzsche, if you wish. "Where the rabble drinks too, there are all wells poisoned". (Zarathustra, second part, chapter six) He forget to add, "beware of the aspiring 'supermen', for they keep the clean wells for themselves, and poison all the others." Regards, Wei ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com