A quick note:
Substack just put out this weird and possibly stupid chat feature, which I will tentatively use as a place where you, sweet reader, can drop links to stuff you think I should check out and write about.
Please do NOT be horny, and do NOT be rude.
Ok, that’s it!
“You say what you like because they like what you say.”
Michael Parenti on journalists
I mentioned this briefly in the first installment of shit I thought about this week (a sporadic bonus column for paid subscribers), and I think I’m ready to expand on it, though messily, as I always do.
Brain very broken lately. Fucked even.
But lets’ try.
Look, it’s not that I don’t think Conde Nast employees should unionize or don’t deserve to. And they did! It’s just that something about it is dissonant to me. While right now in Canada, education workers in Ontario are rightfully striking for better salary, I’m struck by the contrast between both, the reasons that drive us to our professional choices, and how not all aspirations are equal.
Liberalism and capitalism have done an excellent job of confounding all ambitions as Valid simply because one desires them. We have no effective way of criticizing or identifying misguided or sick ambition. This is what I want to write about.
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