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Katherine's avatar

What a brilliant essay! Biting too, lol. I especially like: "I suppose in this way, Sir Elton’s brand as it were, can be seen itself as “misinformation.”

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Chris Bateman's avatar

Hardly the first, and certainly not the last. I still sway between weeping and laughing that icons of the freedom-loving sixties counterculture, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, quit Spotify over the outrageous(!) atrocity that was Joe Rogan talking to a researcher who had been forcibly silenced. I think, perhaps, that the problem is that ideals that are not grounded in virtuous habits are all-too-easy to manipulate...

I have a new Substack, by the way, that you might resonate with - but I'm not quite ready to share it with you. I have a particular post coming up that I would like to offer to you as a point of entry, and perhaps also as a thank you. Please wait two weeks, I'll share (and explain) then.

With unlimited love and respect,

Chris.

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