The marketplace of ideas doesn't always work. Same is true for art, the most popular isn't necessary the best. I have no illusions about this. But I have to co

The marketplace of ideas doesn't always work. Same is true for art, the most popular isn't necessary the best. I have no illusions about this. But I have to compare it to the alternatives and those do not convince at all. There is no purely rational and selfless comittee. How would such a group be less self-interested and less vulnerable to group-think? Or less ideological or prejudiced? Because they have some self-imposed mission to a higher cause? Who doesn't? You can have your benevolent dictator that handles logistical problems of exposure to ideas, but the less error prone way to get the best ideas implemented is a mechanism to boot him out, or in other words, his ideas need justification on the marketplace of ideas. So I must always allow objections.