1) I've realised I'm actually quite, quite bad at the seminar discussion format. It's fine when it operates at a relatively simplistic level - then it's easy to be concise and constructive with what you want to say. But if, for instance, you want to express to a bunch of Oxford students why exactly you think that lottery voting has no independent fairness value because its an unjustified reification of probability applied to a series of different one-off decisions, well it takes forever and nobody really understands what you're saying. And ends up more confrontational than necessary. I shall have to work on this.
2) re: last post, figuring out what you want to do, etc...I think this is a good place to be doing that. Went to another interesting lecture (on Rwanda, by a functionary in the current government) that got me thinking again and then had a really good, long conversation with a friend about things in the world we either feel strongly about or should do...I think part of the key to actually getting stuff done is to make sure you talk to other people about it, and then push each other/hold each other to it.
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