A cautionary word on our "progressive US centrists"

Apr 25, 2007 13:32

It seems to me that political affiliations have become increasingly incestuous in the last ten years. Since February, Lou Dobbs, a free market ideologue with laissez faire commitments tempered by backwards nationalism in his old age, and whom the pop-left imagines as a populist themselves, has been periodically interviewing Jonathan Cowan of the ( Read more... )

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turkishb April 28 2007, 19:44:59 UTC
"Markets are non-intelligent emergent systems. Like natural selection, they do not operate in our interests."

http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/137/01/Techno-demonology.pdf

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morality_play April 29 2007, 15:15:22 UTC
I want to thank you for this. I don't know if you noticed Winner's name or the "politics of technology" listed among my interests, but this area of inquiry colors much of my thinking. Still, I've never heard of this author before now. I hope to discover he's written more on this subject.

This thesis requires it's own analysis, and I'm inspired to write down my thoughts. I'd like to take a few moments to digest it, and give it some attention in a new journal entry.

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