So, one thing the Bad Guys do is set up fake “consultation” processes where a few voices, who are saying the right things, are amplified and other more problematic ones marginalised (“we’re outa time…” etc etc)
And so in an hour and a half (felt longer) webinar about precisely this – the Bad Guys and their crippling of genuine dialogue – you’d think that the host would
a) resist the temptation to talk for yonks (saying little)
b) actually keep each of the speakers to TIME
Because not to do so would be to repeat the problem, meaning that a few people got to talk a helluva lot (recycling painfully obvious points), with time for only a few soft-ball questions.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
And the “what do we have to do differently?” question? Ignored.
PS Oh wow. No, even worse. It was regarded as unfriendly and irrelevant. Fucking hell, what a smugosphere. Why bother.
marchudson.net 
I think it goes without saying that most of what we read or hear is pasteurized, homogenized or castrated. TRUTH is to be avoided at all cost, don’t ever let the public know what is really going on.
A good example of this is parliamentary question time in Australia.
Agreed, Jon, but my point here was that this was being perpetrated by people who would consider themselves to be part of the resistance to that. And are unable to walk their talk.