The "marketplace of ideas" cannot reward what is "best" since disparate people have differing ideas of what best means. Indeed, the marketplace "solves" this pr

The "marketplace of ideas" cannot reward what is "best" since disparate people have differing ideas of what best means. Indeed, the marketplace "solves" this problem precisely by invoking another fitness function, a compromise that is predicated by a certain cultural tension and virtually guaranteed to produce results that appear sub-par from every perspective.