People calling Amanda Palmer a grifter grates on me for the same reason I recoil from people labeling everything "hoaxes" and deriding...
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...issue-based reporting as "fake news", and the reason is this: everybody has a hustle. Everybody who's getting anywhere is hustling.
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Terry Pratchett talked about this in the Lipwig books: you don't sell the sausage, you sell the sizzle.
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I mean, sausage is sausage. It could be good, it could be bad. It could be satisfying. It could be revolting... or satisfyingly revolting.
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If you're trying to sell people on your sausage, you'll only sell to people who are really hungry and you're right there.
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@alexandraerin this is basically My Life Problem so thank you for elucidating it so clearly
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