Venkatesh Rao@vgrNothing willQuote TweetHend Amry@LibyaLiberty·Feb 17, 2017If Trump doesn't cure voter apathy, nothing will.4:06 AM · Feb 18, 20173 Retweets28 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistBullshit. Whole point is to assemble unreliable, nonvirtuous flawed people into virtuous systems15
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann and 2 othersno, this is challenging the presumption of absolute virtue and trust in pluralism. Fox>hedgehog
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistextremely well as it happens. We're solving things by arguing and anxiety instead of blood.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistStill preferable to what MAGA would have been in non-democracy: a Maoist 'great leap'1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistalso disagree with your characterization of state of affairs, but only point I'll contest...1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @vgr @alicemazzy and 2 others...is the idea that 'virtue' is necessary for people to have legitimate political agency11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistSure they're dying. I'm only pushing back against the virtue=agency equation absolutists love
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistthat's where that line of argument inevitably leads though
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistI compare democracy outcomes to comparable non-democracy outcomes, not former to "good" standard1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 18, 2017Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann and @orthonormalistthe "worst system except for all the others" variety of relativism. Absolute merit is unknowable