Compare and contrast the career advice of Mr. Nixon (from Ezra Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley").pic.twitter.com/2Kja9rMvsM
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As is well known, I'm not a fan of civility & believe that political discussion is best serve by bluntness. But, I'm open-minded and have been willing to listen to arguments that a code of politeness has its usefulness (in persuasiveness, mainly).
I've tried to heed the counsel fo the civility fetishists and curb my dunking but then I learn from Stephens that civility isn't about the advancement of knowledge but rather a good career move. You never know who you might want a favor from!
Reading Stephens, this is what civility comes down to: the professional courtesy whereby we all protect each other's phoney baloney jobs. https://twitter.com/MattSchiavenza/status/1101691829504929792 …
Machiavelli would have agreed.
He frames civility as a type of egocentric career insurance. I didn't think I could think less of Bret (and by extension the NYT for hiring him) and yet...now I do.
Bret Stephens line about friends and enemies is just such incredible evidence of a damaged psyche that I kind of think I don't want to dunk on what is almost surely a cry for help
How is this a problem? What goes around, comes around.
First: only pompous douchebags like @BretStephensNYT call it a “CV”, Second: only insecure pseudo intellectuals like @BretStephensNYT weigh their actions against future industry awards.
You know we're in a deeply rotten moment when the powerful don't bother to avoid self-parody.
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