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RE: Selective Outrage, From a Strictly Extra-Terrestrial Point of View
And the Lord shone onto the coffee bean and said: "Thou shalt be made into beverages that taste nothing like you should and many flavors shall be added to hide your own" - Beans 13:20 Apocryphal Bible of Robusta. :p
Shits and giggles aside I liked the essay, it reminded me of one of the best monologues ever put on screen:
From Network by the incomparable Paddy Chayefsky and Sydney Lumet.
I think outrage is a fundamental tool for social change but like you point out, it's been co-opted and diverted into meaningless crusades by the media while we ignore the issues that truly matter.
Great read. Cheers!
Yeah this one of the timeless monologues of our era. I myself watch it from time to time. It's really amazing, I wish they can still make stuff like that these days.
Thanks for the kind words!!