@mtomasky Journalists are somehow as a group more self-obsessed and more filled with a sense of unreserved grandiosity than crossfitters and vegans. Beware the vegan journalist!
Victimhood has become a moral currency.
We’ve built a culture that ranks people by oppression, then mistakes that ranking for understanding. But people aren’t categories. They’re individuals.
And once you lose that, you stop seeing what actually drives success and better outcomes in the real world and instead promote mediocrity and grievance-mongering.
“[Independence Day] ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
—John Adams
@aelfred_D I’m disturbed that so many people are not viewing this as something to be widely celebrated. We’re not perfect but we have changed the world for the better in so many ways. The ideals we strive for should be lauded.