{"id":2277,"date":"2003-03-07T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/running-things\/"},"modified":"2003-03-07T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T21:21:49","slug":"running-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/07\/running-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Running things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOld Fart Tim Oren wrote a nice summary of the Great Anthill debate on his <a title=\"Due Diligence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificavc.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/04.html#a115\">Due Diligence<\/a> blog. Like Jeff Jarvis, he thinks I&#8217;m right:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gents, goal incongruence is what politics is all about. If you think you can avoid that at the scale of a nation, I&#8217;ve got some <i>juche <\/i>for you right here, because it&#8217;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 &#8216;organization&#8217; in any proximity to the coercive powers of war and taxation. Give me that representative government, because it&#8217;s still the worst thing except all the alternatives. While Mr. Bennett may have the manners of a troll, he does have a point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Fart Tim Oren wrote a nice summary of the Great Anthill debate on his Due Diligence blog. Like Jeff Jarvis, he thinks I&#8217;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&#8217;ve got some juche for you right here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/07\/running-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-AJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}