Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.


"How a ragtag band created Wikipedia" - TED Talk (July 2005); this has sometimes appeared paraphrased as "The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks."


Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but...

Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but...

Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but...

Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but...