RE: [ALSC-Forum] Identifying interests

[Esther Dyson]

not necessarily.  It is just harder to figure out. When people say they are 
speaking for their own interests, you can usually trust them - and their 
description of their own interests.

When people say they are speaking for the *public* interest, it is harder 
to believe.   But that doesn't mean it's not worth trying to define it.

Esther Dyson

At 00:17 12.05.01 -0700, Bruce Young wrote:


>Reply to Riel Miller:
>
> >I thought it might be worth pointing, just briefly, that there is a fourth
> >"interest" that you don't quite capture - it is the common or public
> >interest that is more than just the sum of individual interests or company
> >interests.
>
>Agreed.  But as I see it this is less a separate interest group and more
>the result of consensus formed through discussion and agreement by the three
>groups I mentioned.
>
>
>Bruce Young
>Portland, Oregon
>byoung651@home.com
>http://members.home.net/byoung651/index.html



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