Comments on: Accountability is a Reader's Choice, Too http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/26/accountability-is-a-readers-choice-too/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/26/accountability-is-a-readers-choice-too/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Seth Finkelstein Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:55:22 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/26/accountability-is-a-readers-choice-too/#comment-398 It's expressed badly, because to express it well requires some unpleasant politics, some of which can't be said bluntly, exactly because of that politics. But there is a real conflict underlying it, and it's a disservice to focus on the clumsy way that the descriptions come out. Roughly - "Currently, we have a professionized system where various political factions have a mutally interlocking arrangement in order to keep the peace. Some other factions want to destroy this professionalized system and replace it with something much close to a tribal might-makes-right, and the strongest wins. We don't think the latter is a good way to organize the political world. The would-be faction-warlords think it's a great way to organize the political world". It’s expressed badly, because to express it well requires some unpleasant politics, some of which can’t be said bluntly, exactly because of that politics. But there is a real conflict underlying it, and it’s a disservice to focus on the clumsy way that the descriptions come out.

Roughly – “Currently, we have a professionized system where various political factions have a mutally interlocking arrangement in order to keep the peace. Some other factions want to destroy this professionalized system and replace it with something much close to a tribal might-makes-right, and the strongest wins. We don’t think the latter is a good way to organize the political world. The would-be faction-warlords think it’s a great way to organize the political world”.

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