Joi Ito has a fascinating, heart-felt post about the way he — and almost all of us — accommodate our positions to the context in which we’re speaking. He was at the Doors of Perception conference in India conference:

Later, an elderly man stood up and said that all knowledge should be available to everyone and that he didn’t think we should compromise on the copyright issues. He then said that the people are ready to fight and march in the streets and turn over the monopolies and we didn’t need to sit around and wait for government. It turns out he used to live with Mahatma Gandhi’s at his Ashram.

I felt a sudden pain. I realized that I was compromising and in fact evening softening my words assuming that the video of my presentation might end up on the Internet…

It sent a shiver down my spine. And then it stiffened my spine. I heartily recommend the post… [Technorati tag: joi]

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