Comments on: Quote of the Day http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6084.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Fri, 25 May 2012 10:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jonathan http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6084.html/comment-page-1#comment-262003 Jonathan Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:53:31 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6084#comment-262003 I don't know. A lot of what passes for debate now is really verbal fighting, which is not the same thing. In the old days elites blocked access to information. Now individuals attempt to do the same thing or, more frequently, engage in verbal DOS attacks against their interlocutors that make rational discussion impossible. I don’t know. A lot of what passes for debate now is really verbal fighting, which is not the same thing. In the old days elites blocked access to information. Now individuals attempt to do the same thing or, more frequently, engage in verbal DOS attacks against their interlocutors that make rational discussion impossible.

]]> By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6084.html/comment-page-1#comment-261985 Shannon Love Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:19:30 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6084#comment-261985 <i>Unlike such lay people (especially Democrats, I think) who now seem to do this as a matter of course,...</i> Prior to the internet most serious political debate occurred between elites who had monopoly access to the physical mechanism of mass communications. Everyone else mostly just went along for the ride. Now days, ordinary people find themselves in the thick of political debates with people who hold widely divergent views from their own. People feel obligated to defend their choices using any means possible. Frankly, I think this better even if it is uglier. Freedom is often ugly because it is unpredictable and we intuitive value predictability. Unlike such lay people (especially Democrats, I think) who now seem to do this as a matter of course,…

Prior to the internet most serious political debate occurred between elites who had monopoly access to the physical mechanism of mass communications. Everyone else mostly just went along for the ride. Now days, ordinary people find themselves in the thick of political debates with people who hold widely divergent views from their own. People feel obligated to defend their choices using any means possible.

Frankly, I think this better even if it is uglier. Freedom is often ugly because it is unpredictable and we intuitive value predictability.

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