Because stuff Milo said had been known—it just caught conservative outrage recently. Liberal outrage=$$$. Conservative outrage=book pulled.
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Milo story reminds me of a potentially apocryphal but great story about hashish dens, allegedly, during the Ottoman times.
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But I promise it's not time for some game theory.
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So the hashish den residents would argue that this was their nature, and apparently were sometimes even subsidized. But occasionally banned.
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In one case, either someone upset or a ruler started a fire in the den.. To prove that it *wasn't* their nature to sit and smoke all day.
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All but one ran out in panic. One guy sat in the back, waiting for the flames to reach him. People shouted: "what are you doing? Get out!"
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"Waiting for the flames to get here to light my cigarette", he is said to have responded, and thus proving to onlookers it *was* who he was.
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A true Milo—as he projected—would leant into this. He is, after all, a victim of child abuse, as well, and I can see how it could go.
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So I hope this incident remains a clarifying example of how the attention economy & outrage industry truly works, and where the levers are.
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