--- Log opened Tue Oct 25 00:00:28 2011
16:07 < conseo> mcallan: what?
16:09 < conseo> have you found?
22:20 < mcallan> conseo: something simple enough in itself, but i've struggled to place it in context: the ballot is a structural support for equal opportunity in society
22:22 < mcallan> or it would be, if we weren't alienated from it
22:30 < mcallan> in a static context, this is counterfactual and has no force (at best a plea for a solution, one among many).  but in historical context, it is a different matter...
22:33 < mcallan> i think i can title the final section "the collapse of structural support for equal opportunity", and date it beginning roughly 1867
22:35 < mcallan> interesting parallels with Marx.  anyway, i think i'm finally on top of it after 3 days head scratching
--- Log closed Wed Oct 26 00:00:44 2011