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Coddled affluent professional

Apr 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

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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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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People will try to disembody causation (Twitter, ‘toxic dynamics,’ ‘human nature,’ blah blah blah) but…

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Key components of managed democracy:

Fake, astroturfed pseudo consensus manufactured by media/ NGOs/ academia that pathologizes dissent.

Constant state of emergency/ exception: Moral panics stoked by legacy media and ideological spectacles (protests) staged by NGOs.
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Illiberalism justified by continuous ideological and social ‘progress’ generated by academia, media, NGOs, gov’t.

An algorithmically generated political simulacrum that supersedes true politics and inhibits the expression of meaningful political interests.
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Development of a social incentive structure that crowdsources a robust surveillance and censorship apparatus among marginal overproduced elites.

The pathologization of procedural/ methodological/ epistemic norms and core institutional missions in competing power centers.
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https://twitter.com/potus/status/1785689383875580239

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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https://twitter.com/potus/status/1785689383875580239

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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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…almost immediately deemed unacceptable.

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