Old Fart Tim Oren wrote a nice summary of the Great Anthill debate on his Due Diligence blog. Like Jeff Jarvis, he thinks I’m right:
Gents, goal incongruence is what politics is all about. If you think you can avoid that at the scale of a nation, I’ve got some juche for you right here, because it’s just your flavor. Having observed at first hand how supposedly coherent sets of people like the old Well-beings made a hash of things, I shudder to think about that sort of ‘organization’ in any proximity to the coercive powers of war and taxation. Give me that representative government, because it’s still the worst thing except all the alternatives. While Mr. Bennett may have the manners of a troll, he does have a point.
Oren proves that not all venture capitalists are abject hive-minded idiots, which is always a nice thing to know, and especially so in these days of digging out the rubble left behind by all the exploding Cerent-me-toos.