Good summation of the nuances among we Sneeches. I sometimes wonder what’s being cancelled for the cancelled? To live in the rarified air of celebrity, which is mostly invented, and brief. Eh, I’m missing the tragedy.
With Adams, his entire art was lampooning a brief moment in work life and the trends around it. Only now to rightly fall victim to a lampooned modern trend of work life. Yes, we have transcended irony.
Consequence Culture may get an eye roll, but "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" and FAFO (Fool Around, Find Out), gets a hearty Schadenfreude-laced guffaw. Very little difference as far as I can tell..
I ran across this article today that takes a very deep philosophical dive into some of the mechanics that lie underneath the phenomenon I describe here. I find his analysis of moralism to be rational and I think it nicely explains some of the reasons why the "cancel culture" debates generate so much divisiveness. There is a necessarily Moral underpinning to them. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cruel-moraliser-uses-a-halo-to-disguise-his-horns
Good summation of the nuances among we Sneeches. I sometimes wonder what’s being cancelled for the cancelled? To live in the rarified air of celebrity, which is mostly invented, and brief. Eh, I’m missing the tragedy.
With Adams, his entire art was lampooning a brief moment in work life and the trends around it. Only now to rightly fall victim to a lampooned modern trend of work life. Yes, we have transcended irony.
Consequence Culture may get an eye roll, but "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" and FAFO (Fool Around, Find Out), gets a hearty Schadenfreude-laced guffaw. Very little difference as far as I can tell..
I ran across this article today that takes a very deep philosophical dive into some of the mechanics that lie underneath the phenomenon I describe here. I find his analysis of moralism to be rational and I think it nicely explains some of the reasons why the "cancel culture" debates generate so much divisiveness. There is a necessarily Moral underpinning to them. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cruel-moraliser-uses-a-halo-to-disguise-his-horns