Fwd: [EM] Catchy goes Taxi Driver (watch my slow descent into frustration and brutality, prompted by the madness of another!)

[David Catchpole]

"My karma just ran over your dogma." But seriously, Mike, aren't you
yourself sometimes just a tinch illiberal?

By the way, thanks for the further references. They certainly make it
harder to accuse you of ignorance!

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> 
> 
> >Mike ends his piece with a lovely bit criticising the agenda
> >of "academics" (he doesn't have to go "all academics suck!" to prompt
> >a response). I quoth-
> >
> > > But I don't say that Craig's above-quoted attitude is original with
> > > him. Maybe Craig has just explained why the academics generally
> > > don't seem interested in the standards that concern actual voters.
> > >
> > > But though I may not agree with the priorities or goals of most
> > > academics, I wouldn't insult them by counting Craig among them.
> > > I merely mean that he may have copied their style and jargon, and
> > > verbalized their values more frankly than they usually do, in
> > > the above quoted statement by Craig.
> 
> Catchy, you're too sensitive. All I said was that maybe Craig
> has exaplained why academics generally aren't interested in the
> standards that concern actual voters. That's a criticism of their
> agenda?
> 
> 
> >
> I feel that sometimes people
> >feel that in order to achieve theoretical greatness they have to go "out
> >in the wilderness."
> 
> David, you tend toward dramatic ways of saying things. I'm
> interested in dealing with certain concerns that are important to
> lots of voters, and by which they seem dominated & cowed.
> I'm sorry if it offends you when I say that the professors whom
> you respect so much aren't interested in those concerns, for the
> most part. I don't care what dogmas you subscribe to. But why
> does it upset you if not everyone shares your loyalty to those
> dogmas?
> 
> As for your reading list, I'd suggest Weber & Merrill as the
> people to read, for Approval. Weber & Myerson have written
> interesting articles on tests for comparing methods. UUCC is
> a simplification based on Myerson's corruption test.
> 
> Mike Ossipoff
> 
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