Correct observations of the world as it is have monetary value; that the phase where this became the dominant model of journalism was anomalous doesn't change the fact that there are always people who need an accurate portrayal of events
Rather than a workout for the primal regions of their limbic system to feel alive
Given that this is the case there *should* be a business case for at least one news outlet that fulfills this role while others provide the reality-adjacent fan fiction that the masses of the heavily credentialed but partially educated seem to crave
Reality may well already be a niche product, but it will always be a reasonably big one

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Here is one of the areas where Successor Ideology resembles religion: as with transubstantiation, you demonstrate your faith by believing in, or making a show of belief in, contradiction
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The thing about Hungary is that they want to stay in the EU and do their own thing; it's a bit of chutzpah that drives Eurocrats crazy but so long as they can carry it off, no reason why they shouldn't
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I think this is right. A society once guided, driven, and held to account by conscience, subject to spasms of individual and collective frenzy by moral aspiration, striving after perfection, seeking for salvation, scourging itself for its unworthiness....
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This is how they force you to buy YouTube Premium
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Ideological succession refers to the bourgeois moral revolution that flowered at the midpoint of the decade, composed in equal measure of new political propositions, new moral premises, and new psychological underpinnings, in pursuit of what it declares to be "social justice"
We would have said that it was understandable or urged people to empathize with Biles’ pain at any time prior to the summer of 2021; only today do we speak of the “radical courage” of withdrawal
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Their role is to intimidate the rest of the faculty and staff into compliance with ideological mandates, and inculcate students into the cult of grievance to extract further sinecures for themselves
It is bureaucratic entrepreneurialism that has captured the power of moral compulsion -- these two forces in alignment with one another cannot be stopped
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