[PEN-L:28682] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin Schwartz wrote:

> In my typical, class-blinkered, petty bourgeois manner, I am a real
> fan of expertise. Democracy has its place, but not in micro-managing
> the use of real expertise by real experts. There are skills that
> require long study and constant application to master, and where the
> opinion of the populace has no damn role, except indirectly in
> setting general ethical standards and rules and regulations embodied
> in law. Don't tell me how to manage my shop.

Even if we, as taxpayers, help pay your bills?

You're a big fan of an abstract quality called intelligence, and
you're an equally rabid fan of an abstract quality called expertise?
Doesn't the demos get any chance to decide where this intelligence
and expertise are deployed, towards what end, and with what reward?
Or should we trust you just because you're experts?

Doug