Goodness, "sneaky and dishonest"! What epithets will fly next?
Anyway, bollocks to "deniability." I'm saying straight out that the current "marketplace of ideas" offers premiums to intellectuals with an anti-democratic argument to make. That's not to say that Arrow is wrong, or that Arrow is motivated by eee-vile; only that I bring a (finite, but real) dollop of skepticism to work whose implications are so convenient to established power. If you want to regard that skepticism as "sneaky and dishonest," feel free. I'm also a Rootless Cosmopolitan, while you're at it.
More to the point in this discussion, I never said anything even remotely similar to the claim that "mere interest" in voting systems is somehow discreditable. And if I had meant to say any such thing, I would have said it straightforwardly.
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Date: 2008-07-06 10:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, bollocks to "deniability." I'm saying straight out that the current "marketplace of ideas" offers premiums to intellectuals with an anti-democratic argument to make. That's not to say that Arrow is wrong, or that Arrow is motivated by eee-vile; only that I bring a (finite, but real) dollop of skepticism to work whose implications are so convenient to established power. If you want to regard that skepticism as "sneaky and dishonest," feel free. I'm also a Rootless Cosmopolitan, while you're at it.
More to the point in this discussion, I never said anything even remotely similar to the claim that "mere interest" in voting systems is somehow discreditable. And if I had meant to say any such thing, I would have said it straightforwardly.