The most conventional work I write usually sells to the most conventional outlets for the best rates of pay (my day job is the most appalling example, but that’s not my own research, merely work I package). Even if I give them something strange and genuine, it’s gradually molded into something that isn’t and I have enough of a need for the fee that I simply punch the clock and comply, most of the time. I’ve always been transparent about this but do regret how incentives shape my own activity.
I don’t know specifically, or have an informed take, but it was a common thing in the centrist discourse to say that DOGE was mostly bad but there were things it spotlit that were worth changing, like the underground offices (and other aspects) of the Office of Personnel Management. So it doesn’t reflect my stance, just a really overdone one.
This is a legitimately new hot take I have previously not read, congratulations. I am a moderate who consumes a lot of this moderate content, and I will admit that it is tiring to see the same names appear on each other's podcasts or as guest writers, and say the same thing over and over and agree with each other.
I do think one underdiscussed element in the heterodox section of your piece is frame of reference. The reason these moderates are heterodox is because they exist in an extremely liberal/progressive sociocultural milieu. They complain about the excesses of woke because they are surrounded by woke.
It looks like the Democrats are about to turn it around though:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-porn-free-speech/
🤣
Oh and who could forget this gem!
https://unherd.com/newsroom/democrats-promote-porn-access-in-pitch-to-young-men/
And then…😂 they blame the election loss … on sexism!!🤣🤣🤣
I’m dying omg. They’re so funny. 😆
The most conventional work I write usually sells to the most conventional outlets for the best rates of pay (my day job is the most appalling example, but that’s not my own research, merely work I package). Even if I give them something strange and genuine, it’s gradually molded into something that isn’t and I have enough of a need for the fee that I simply punch the clock and comply, most of the time. I’ve always been transparent about this but do regret how incentives shape my own activity.
What is the good DOGE has done?
I don’t know specifically, or have an informed take, but it was a common thing in the centrist discourse to say that DOGE was mostly bad but there were things it spotlit that were worth changing, like the underground offices (and other aspects) of the Office of Personnel Management. So it doesn’t reflect my stance, just a really overdone one.
It was. Then the actual work was done and the execution was that of a three year old making a full English
This is a legitimately new hot take I have previously not read, congratulations. I am a moderate who consumes a lot of this moderate content, and I will admit that it is tiring to see the same names appear on each other's podcasts or as guest writers, and say the same thing over and over and agree with each other.
I do think one underdiscussed element in the heterodox section of your piece is frame of reference. The reason these moderates are heterodox is because they exist in an extremely liberal/progressive sociocultural milieu. They complain about the excesses of woke because they are surrounded by woke.