We are part of this week’s monetizable outrage narrative. Every other week, ever since the development of the 24-hour news cycle, has had its own monetizable outrage narrative. If you’ve never been part of an outrage narrative before, welcome to the club. It sucks. It leaves scars. But it is survivable. (Speaking as someone who has survived my own share of public controversy, cancellation, and outrage narratives, and who has worked in several academic subfields that are routinely demonized by the press.)
Also, haters gonna hate.
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There will come a time, maybe in the 2050s, when you may be sitting in front of a cheerful Christmas fireplace, a grandkid bouncing on your knee, and your adult kids may ask you to tell them once more the tale of the Great FTX Crisis of 2022, and how it all played out, and died down, and how EA survived and prospered. You won’t remember all the breathless EA forum posts, the in-fighting, and the crisis management. You’ll just remember that you either kept your faith in the cause and the community—or you didn’t.
And here’s another person who’s “survived [his] own share of public controversy, cancellation, and outrage narratives”: Peter Singer.
A couple of excerpts from Geoffrey Miller’s post in case you haven’t seen it:
And here’s another person who’s “survived [his] own share of public controversy, cancellation, and outrage narratives”: Peter Singer.
Hell, he even sparked this movement.