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.
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1/ Bombshell UCLA med DEI story from @aaronsibarium.
‘Race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a "failed medical school," said one former member of the admissions staff. "We want racial diversity so badly, we're willing to cut corners to get it."’ freebeacon.com/campus/a-faile…
2/ ‘More than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.’
3/ ‘"I don't know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors," the professor said. "Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students."’
A reasonable inference from the years of ‘cancelings’ is that, given the scale of what happened, entire industries - journalism, publishing, academia, etc. - are cancerous, irredeemable, and full of malevolent and sociopathic people.
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Yeah, technology and collapsing business models were factors but none of this was possible without execrable behavior on the part of many execrable people.
People will try to disembody causation (Twitter, ‘toxic dynamics,’ ‘human nature,’ blah blah blah) but…
…that doesn’t change that when the breaks came off we got to see everyone’s character revealed.
I hope that the reputation and status of the sort of people who led the cancelings (and the industries they inhabit) will continue to be harmed into the foreseeable future.
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There’s nothing more important to libs than therapy culture.
It’s a lens to see the world, a framework for describing the teleology of one’s life, a substitute for the comfort provided by religion, and a legitimizing rationale for personal and institutional decision making.
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So much ideological argumentation is now dependent on therapeutic jargon - ‘safety,’ ‘harm,’ ‘trauma,’ ‘self care,’ ‘toxic stress,’ etc. - that I don’t think that libs could express their ideas or justify their behavior without it.
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Libs are objectively, quantitatively getting more mentally ill and neurotic.
Safetyism, hysterias and panics, a decreasing ability to navigate fulfilling adult sexual relationships, regression to childlike behavior, increasing para sociality - the libs are not well.
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