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There is no 'marketplace' for ideas because ideas don't cost anything. No one buys and sells ideas - except in the limited commercial setting in which IP is sometimes bought and sold.
You can agree or disagree with an idea at no direct personal cost. You can persuade or dissuade others at no direct personal cost.
So how is this a market?
And as Poemless pointed out, there is a huge difference between commercial advertising, which has more in common with the pro-party posters and slogans you'd find in the old Soviet states (only the people are better dressed and the colours are brighter), and public debate and discussion, which is based on persuading opponents by engaging with their ideas directly.
As opposed to yelling in their ear with a constant barrage of jingles and catchy video sequences.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. — George Bernard Shaw
a totalising ideology is one that captures all metaphorical space in discourse as well as control of physical structures and processes in facespace.
this is colloquially expressed as "if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail."
I could get into conceptual connections between totalising ideology and monocropping, etc. -- but perhaps the most succinct subversion is from our old friend physics: if you try to understand light as particles it doesn't really work, and if you try to understand it as waves it doesn't really work. both metaphors need to be in play at once, mutually contradictory and mutually necessary. which is a feature of complex systems...
but we'll be off to Happy Planet of the Verbositoids if I don't slam on the brakes here... The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
I was replying to Migeru, who opined: Interesting metaphors, those: argumentation as advertising and the "market of ideas". Not everyone shares them. I find them annoying. The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
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