But this time
around it was not my usual amazement that
anyone alive today was naïve enough to believe the old avant - garde orthodoxy of shocking the bourgeois, the tired old line offered in support of Deitch by Aaron Rose, a curator of one of Deitch's recent exhibitions: «I feel like [Deitch] is shaking the foundation of the castle, and the people who've been living quite comfortably in that castle for the last 20 years are
nervous about it.
2) There were internal doubts all
around as expressed in the emails, about data quality, how to adjust, data gaps, sloppy record keeping, wonky proxies, unproven stats, so they were
nervous about
anyone looking at it too closely, as they should have been.