Who Were the Sea Peoples?

One of the most interesting conclusions in James C. Scott's Two Cheers for Anarchism is that the fixation on what is measurable in political decision making is a way of pretending to be apolitical while actually favoring a certain style of politics: technocratic, elitist, analytical, managerial. For instance, cost-benefit analysis is not a politically neutral way to make decisions: it is a way to make a political decision, by deciding what costs count for what and what benefits count for what, while pretending that no such decision is going on, and it is "Just the facts, mam." I might add, making justice entirely a matter of market decisions is not a way to de-politicize justice: no, it is only masquerading as an abjuration of politics: in truth, it is the political decision that access to and control over justice should be based entirely upon wealth.