I think it takes a certain kind of idealist to decide to set up a newsroom in the first place newsman: i have given up my job to help the world! here are some stories of pressing importance consumers: boo, show us celebrity tits newsman: [*drinking heavily*] well fuck you too
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this doesn't explain any of the tabloids or any of the Murdoch owned media companies and it doesn't explain, like, NYTimes from 1851-2014
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a combination of greed and pride, if you're into the whole deadly sins metaphor
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technically those aren't sins, they're capital vices, capital as in the source and wellspring. so lust isn't inherently sinful but rather a source of sinful behaviors
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when I was like 20 I wrote an entire set of blogposts titled "how to hack the deadly sins", where the argument in each case was that each sin was basically an impulse or drive, and could be channeled constructively or destructively. I was super proud of it
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oh man I remember having thoughts along those lines at that age too, though I didn't assemble then into a coherent effortpost.
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that's pretty good actually. I would point out that monastic asceticism was a major feature of medieval Christianity as well and the renunciate path is kind of an inherently selfish one, concerned with one's own salvation ahead of the rest of the world.
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this jesus dude was quite alright
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