Ha! The intellectual, um, bogan-isation? of the Catallaxy blog is nearly complete, with "come back and fight, you Lefties, there's still a culture war I want to win" Nick Cater now becoming a regular poster there, apparently.
The blog has gone into a tail spin of intellectual credibility over the last couple of years - for any post that actually contains something useful in terms of economic analysis (it happens about once every three or four months now) there will be scores of posts of the kind where Judith Sloan tosses her hair and complains about all the tosh from teachers and Greenies she had to put up with over the years; Steve Kates doing his excruciatingly simplistic Tea Party/Fox News analysis of US politics (when he's not explaining again how he's the only economist who really understands Say's Law); and Sinclair Davidson hyperventilating about how anyone (including Jews) who dares question the wisdom of repealing s18 of the Racial Discrimination Act is an enemy of All Things Good. (The IPA campaign on freedom of speech has been the most hyperbolic think tank campaign I can ever recall.)
What I don't understand is how these people do not see that the way they talk on this blog harms their credibility generally. The blog is certainly, to my mind, a thriving advertisement against any economics student even contemplating going to RMIT.
Catallaxy was never the same after Jason left the wheel and handed over to Sinclair.
ReplyDeleteKates is simply mad, Judy uses peroxide too much and Sinclair is simply lazy.
They do not care about credibility as they simply talk to each other.
They never venture out from Catallaxy
Catallaxy was never the same after Jason left the wheel and handed over to Sinclair.
ReplyDeleteYes, and since that time some of the better commentators have abandoned ship. Soon did a very good job keeping it on a even keel, promoting a number of discussions, and preventing it turning into rabid festering site where people are increasingly pre-occupied attacking anyone who disagrees with their mantras. The site is increasingly populated by people whose main goal is not to explore ideas but to denigrate people who do not share their ideas. Oh and yes, I am still banned. Haven't tried in months but seems to be no point now.