By megalogue I mean society-wide dialogues, that link many community
dialogues into one, often nationwide, given and take. While at first
it may seem impossible to have a society-wide dialogue, the fact is
that such megalogues occur almost incessantly about one topic or
another, often triggered by some dramatic event or deliberately staged
[ .. ]
It is true that megalogues are fuzzy in the sense that one cannot
determine a priori with any precision when the process will be
completed, which values will prevail, or which new public policies
will be endorsed. In effect, one can predict only that the process
often will be disjointed, emotive, repetitive, and meandering. But
these are all earmarks of processes that truly engage a mass of people
in examining, redefining, and redirecting their values and moral
commitments-earmarks of moral dialogues, essential for truly endorsed
social change.


At 18:30 on Jul 13, Nmherman reasoned:

> efforts are made all the time to establish truth objectively; sometimes
> they fail, sometimes they succeed. Some standards are discovered; others
> may never be found.

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