Oct
29
2010
“(This is one of those things that I say and have to include a disclaimer about corniness and being overly earnest and apologies about not deflating this ironically and blah blah blah but you know? It’s so obviously true. This isn’t a hokey Taylor Swift lyric about being like Romeo and Juliet where everything’s coated with this super-icky fake cloying Disney sheen. Being noble or ignoble means [not] stepping on someone’s head at a political rally; it means [not] using the cable network you own to spread propaganda and misinformation and rage; it means [not] selling out someone who had the audacity and poor judgment to be physically intimate with you; it means [not] publishing non-stories that are personally damaging and also virtually unverifiable for a quick cheap buck. These aren’t abstractions. Morality is pretty fucking easy to concretize when you talk about people being hurt or shamed or just generally treated like garbage.)”
Nerdshares: Can we talk about THAT Christine O’Donnell story? (via dwineman)
TL;DR: this is really good!
CHUAGPQ;FS1: “Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the god in man; and the ignoble that which subjects the man to the beast?”
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1CHUAGPQ;FS: could have used a gratuitous Plato quote; for seasoning!
