How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by Joe-Z on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:07PM (#14850291)

I get why you're being downvoted, but I fully agree with you. When I was still in college and read 'this is water' for the first time it felt like an epiphany. Now, a few years down the road, it just seems pretentious to me.

Also, I don't mean any disrespect here, but the fact that he killed himself kind of taints these sort of speeches for me also. How much better is his proposed lifestyle/world-view really, if it didn't even work for the master-mind himself? (Assuming that the goal is to be happy of course.)

EDIT: Just to clarify, I know he was probably battling depression, but should a person fighting such a severe mental illness really be the one, one listens to for live-advice then?

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by tdb7893 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:17PM (#14850392)

You can be wise and have mental health issues. In my experience often my friends with depression are wisest on this stuff because they have to deal with it all the time. Also, I don't think underlying health issues diminish it that much as you don't generally have much control over those issues

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by rosser on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:15PM (#14850360)

Depression is orthogonal to critical thinking skills. Suggesting otherwise is ad hominem.

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