Thread by @feelsdesperate

The NPR CEO tweets are great fun and support my thesis that parody, satire, and fiction can no longer compete with reality (she’s a better Titania McGrath than Titania McGrath), but the fact that this intellectually vacant and ideologically excited midwit…

…was chosen to lead one of the few remaining viable legacy news orgs is also an important marker for NGO teleology and where things are headed.

There’s no reason that NPR has to care about its mission, reach, or whether its listener base is shrinking.

NPR can regress into…

…smug self satisfaction, focusing primarily on the wants and needs of its employees and a small segment of the public that is closely ideologically aligned.

The narcissism and self entitlement of NGO employees is a constant force that threatens to pull these orgs off course…

…and concerted leadership effort is required to ward off entropy and chaos.

The decision to elevate a veteran NGO midwit who loves therapy culture and mimetic ideological nonsense as CEO signals that NPR has no interest in righting the ship and is leaning into the chaos.
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A diminished NPR that can’t make basic sense of the world is of course a loss to the public.

The entitled people who diminish institutions always have hysteric counter narratives to launch about how it just shows that they’re willing to bear the costs of…

…their principles and are following a higher calling, but it’s easy to see that that’s just laundered narcissism and that the stupidity, incompetence, and derangement of over socialized mediocre people who have found their way to positions of power…

…is shredding institutions and leading to all sorts of broad negative externalities.