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AN IRONY of local government was touched on last Friday night in the “colloquy” between Karl Hess, anarchist, and James Kilpatrick, conservative, but the point was not developed. Both men agreed that government has grown too big and impersonal for our own good, and Hess elaborated at length on the desirability of keeping government at a neighborhood level, where participatory democracy can be most effective.
Compelling thoughts, but the sad truth is that neighborhood people seldom want to participate in their government, and when they do, their elected officials often do everything they can to thwart that desire. “Executive meetings” are held, to discuss the public’s business behind closed doors; “conferences” are held, to which the public is not invited, even though it’s the public’s business that is being conferred about— the list goes on.
The irony remains: The “grass roots” level of local government, which is siqjposed to be most accessible to the people, often is the most remote. We know of some com -
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