nathan, I wonder what you think. Are we capable of having a productive discourse across the internet? There's so many local / regional / national / political differences. Are we capable of ignoring / overcoming those boundaries? Or does the internet exacerbate them? I'm finding it hard to encompass my dilemma, but it's really... are people from where I live able to meaningfully talk about all-the-things with people from all-the-other-places?