Elitism, Democracy and Design
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20071226/
by Dale Carrico
12/38/2007
That which may perhaps make such equality incredible is but a vain conceit of one's own wisdom, which almost all men think they have in a greater degree than the vulgar; that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others, whom by fame, or for concurring with themselves, they approve.
Here I thought I was the only one reading IEET, but, I guess not.
It took me a solid five years of reading nothing but trash and writing letters to get grad school out of my system and begin to write a clear, simple sentence.
And he writes:
Actually, interestingly enough, the rhetoric of proposing otherwise here, of obfuscating technodevelopmental deliberation at the relevant level of concrete decisions, actual stakeholders, and discernible impacts for an abstract affirmation of "design" or "technology" conceived as bland generalities does often have a politics—and usually it is a de facto conservative politics, even when it exhibits the superficial trappings of radical futurology.
I should offer him my course in how to write normal again.
I guess "the period" was a class on a day he missed.