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There's a fundamental misapprehension at work here regarding the nature and purpose of the news. For something to be reported as a news story, it has to be something which is assumed not to be common knowledge. Things everyone already does are not news by definition, so they don't get reported. The very concept of news implies a body of commonly known things which the news can add to by virtue of being outside it. This, believe it or not, is how the benefits of Actual Scientific Research on things like the value of aspirin or red wine get disseminated to the grunting masses of non-/r/-science subscribers who don't read XKCD, but Ayn Randall over here never feels truly alive unless he's telling himself he's superior to the great mass of sheep.
Besides all of which, this doesn't actually sound like a bad lifestyle. Maybe he should give it a try, seeing as how he's starting to get on in years himself.
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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2651 It's hard to be as smart as Randall, because you become aware of so many conflicting threats and demands you have to keep in bala...
If he did follow this lifestyle he wouldn't be making comics anymore, so that's another plus!
ReplyDeleteI don't want him to die, just retire. He insists on being a Jim Davis rather than a Gary Larson.
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