"Following the evolving reward structure" is sometimes what the enduring survivors of the media game actually mean when they talk about how they make a point of continuing to read, learn, expand their knowledge and revise their assumptions, etc. (Slate's current advice columnist had a spiel about this when she was a guest on one of the local shows on NYC's NPR affiliate.) Not always--but they're in an industry where not being a cynical speaker and listener is a practically career liability.
Yeah it's a very difficult thing for me to parse at least, because there's such a thin line between evolving as the world inevitably changes and we learn and understand new things and just being a chickenshit opportunist. But I think there's also a degree of difference between journalists who do this and just laypeople, who I have far more sympathy for.
Excellent article and really sums up something I have been noticing with these types.
PMC JezebelSalonSlate women have become the next version of what the evangelicals and megachurch pastors were in the 2000s, using a suddenly elevated media/political position to speedrun becoming the most despised demographic in the country. On one point I might diverge with you though: Since I still haven't forgiven that former demographic, I won't bother forgiving this one either. Its the very idea of missionary culture war I wish to drive underground overall, rather than keep playing whack a mole with these people in all their past, present, and future incarnations.
The question of Forgiveness to me is more of a principle I'm trying to practice as opposed to endless punishment, but I definitely think that we need to some extent salt the earth from which these puritans grow. The question of what we need to do with these people, and how the damage can be undone is, to me, very open ended right now, but I'd prefer to enter that conversation holding a principle of "love the sinner, hate the sin" because I just see that as the only move forward, I don't really expect anyone else to hold that position.
"Following the evolving reward structure" is sometimes what the enduring survivors of the media game actually mean when they talk about how they make a point of continuing to read, learn, expand their knowledge and revise their assumptions, etc. (Slate's current advice columnist had a spiel about this when she was a guest on one of the local shows on NYC's NPR affiliate.) Not always--but they're in an industry where not being a cynical speaker and listener is a practically career liability.
Yeah it's a very difficult thing for me to parse at least, because there's such a thin line between evolving as the world inevitably changes and we learn and understand new things and just being a chickenshit opportunist. But I think there's also a degree of difference between journalists who do this and just laypeople, who I have far more sympathy for.
Excellent article and really sums up something I have been noticing with these types.
PMC JezebelSalonSlate women have become the next version of what the evangelicals and megachurch pastors were in the 2000s, using a suddenly elevated media/political position to speedrun becoming the most despised demographic in the country. On one point I might diverge with you though: Since I still haven't forgiven that former demographic, I won't bother forgiving this one either. Its the very idea of missionary culture war I wish to drive underground overall, rather than keep playing whack a mole with these people in all their past, present, and future incarnations.
The question of Forgiveness to me is more of a principle I'm trying to practice as opposed to endless punishment, but I definitely think that we need to some extent salt the earth from which these puritans grow. The question of what we need to do with these people, and how the damage can be undone is, to me, very open ended right now, but I'd prefer to enter that conversation holding a principle of "love the sinner, hate the sin" because I just see that as the only move forward, I don't really expect anyone else to hold that position.