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What a vapid essay. Full of stupid cliches, like "newsletters have existed since time immemorial". Long lists and descriptions not just of substacks, but even o
by amadeuspagel 6y ago
What a vapid essay. Full of stupid cliches, like "newsletters have existed since time immemorial". Long lists and descriptions not just of substacks, but even of other newsletters. Little to no discussion of why people prefer substacks to traditional media. But perhaps this is unfair. Perhaps the essay is an attempt to illustrate just that, by parodying the intellectual emptyness of traditional media.
- Pils 6y ago> intellectual emptyness of traditional media. What do you mean by this? What does "traditional media" mean in this context? Anything that isn't self-published?
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoI think pretty clearly he's referring to the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies. A specific term coined by Curtis Yarvin, "The Cathedral," comes to mind.
- Pils 6y agoAh yes, clearly he meant "the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies." I missed some obvious contextual clues there. If the alternative to traditional media is more Moldbug, I'll pass.
- yawnxyz 6y agoI was just thinking how I prefer reading the Substacks I follow over articles like this one in the New Yorker