Yeah I mean the real upshot of "irony culture" is that the "nothing is sacred" ethos is always just as hypocritical and fake as its supposed "everything is sacred" opposite
Well I mean Daisey did actually go to Shenzhen and even though nothing that happened there changed his mind about Foxconn being an abusive company there was also, reasonably, nothing super dramatic that happened that he could use for a story
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Just like nothing actually that interesting or that bad happened to DFW when he went on a cruise for "research" into the darkness at the heart of American consumerism Which isn't that big a deal except the essay he wrote about it became part of the literary canon etc
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Unsurprisingly corporate juggernauts with massive PR arms are really good at preventing the sorts of Eureka moments prior muckrakers used to stir up public outrage, because it's their job.
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Well, yeah, but it kind of feels like he already knew what kind of story he wanted to tell before he ever packed his bags, and went to Shenzhen just to lend credibility to it?
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Sure But that's kind of the thing, it's ridiculous to think that his mind SHOULD have been changed by one trip to Shenzhen either way Going at all was part of the theater
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