It’s not the word that hurt so much, it was the obscene dance of victory around the audience’s pain.
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our identity is too twisted-up, maybe too broken, for meaningful pride or meaningful solidarity.
I thought a lot about how the click-centric, ad-driven model of journalism had broken down the marketplace of ideas.
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But when it comes down to it — as gross and worrisome as the click-centric model is — it’s rather irrelevant.
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There are a lot of click-centric publications out there, & a great many would never, ever publish something with “gooks” in the headline.
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There’s a smug sociopathy that’s set in at Gawker, and I suppose their profit model encourages it — but it’s not the cause.
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That mindset existed long ago. We knew it well from the playgrounds of our childhoods.
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I guess the only thing to be surprised about is that our bullies can make money off our misery, now.
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