THE ANALECTS - Confucious Confucious is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? The Master said, To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learnt, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from afar, is this not after all delightful? To remain unsoured even though one's merits are unrecognized by others, is that not after all what is expected of a gent...
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Interestingly, one of Gawker Media’s first big hits was a Paris Hilton sex video, which ran on its Fleshbot site in 2003. (Mr. Denton sold Fleshbot in 2012.) Far from threatening to bring the house down, it helped solidify Mr. Denton’s company as a real web player. The tape fit with Gawker’s sensibility — punching up at the arrogance of wealth and celebrity (in this case an heiress who was famously famous for being famous) in the media pirate’s tradition of its forebears at Spy magazine.
Drawing the Line on Gossip After the Gawker Trial - The New York Times
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One of the silliest or most misguided notions that David Denby frets about, in denouncing snark, is that "the lowest, most insinuating and insulting side threatens to win national political campaigns." This is more or less the opposite of the case. What carries contemporary American political campaigns along is a thick flow of opaque smarm. Here is Obama in 2012, wrapping up a presidential debate performance against Mitt Romney:
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's...
On Smarm
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's...
On Smarm
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