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In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people’s feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even
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“The more you give to your job, the more guilt you feel at home. The more you excel at home, the more behind you feel at work. Women are squeezed into a smaller and smaller corner, until there is no room to feel much of anything aside from anger or helplessness.”
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
“Early on, LAPD commander Daryl Gates had said no to Cops filming in his city. Then, in 1991, George Holliday recorded the beating of Rodney King, graphic evidence of police brutality that led to a mass uprising a year later, after the jury delivered a not-guilty verdict. In 1994, the new LAPD police chief, Willie Williams, agreed to let Cops film his officers. “At this juncture, it makes certain sense for the department to receive some positive coverage,” said Gary Greenebaum, the president of the police commission, in the Los Angeles Times.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Anyone could rebrand a mediocre businessman, some small-timer in need of a glow-up. But taking a failed tycoon who was a heavily in hock and too risky for almost any bank to lend to, a crude, impulsive, bigoted, multiply-bankrupt ignoramus, a sexual predator so reckless he openly harassed women on his show, then finding a way to make him look attractive enough to elect as the president of the United States? That was a coup, even if no one could brag about it.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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