In-der-Blog-sein

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen asks if Nate Silver is insufficiently Heideggerian?

For instance, Silver insufficiently recognizes that “Dasein is never to be taken ontologically as an instance or a special case of some genus of entities as things that are present-at-hand” (I.1.¶9). Humans are not chairs! They’re not bugs! They’re not pieces of equipment always and already available to be counted and sorted! Don’t “enframe” me, bro! Don’t reduce voters to non-subjects, raw data!