Striving for an ideal is good. Doing away with it entirely feels like giving up on it and admitting defeat.
Dinesh > On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:24 PM, Naomi Slater <n...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > I suspect the answer is not to replace the word but to do away with it > entirely > >> On Fri 22. Mar 2019 at 21:28, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:59 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>>> On 3/22/19 3:03 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>>> It would be very important to come up with a replacement that is >>>> as effective as what we're trying to replace. Frankly, I don't know >>>> a single candidate. >>> >>> As discussed elsewhere in the thread, simply coming up with a new word, >>> while potentially helpful in starting conversations, doesn't really >>> address the underlying problem. And each new word (do-ocracy is one that >>> has been proposed, for example) comes with its own set of concerns and >>> baggage. >> >> FWIW: the only word I can 100% embrace as a wholesale replacement >> of meritocracy is do-ocracy. >> >>> We have had the "what other word can we use" conversation at least once >>> on this mailing list, and at least one on members, in the last 2 years. >>> Neither conversation resulted in anything actionable. >> >> That's basically my point. >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
