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>>reality still gets to bat last This seems like a Manichaean way of looking at human nature. In truth, all people are flawed and the same human being always d
by krustyburger 5y ago
>>reality still gets to bat last
This seems like a Manichaean way of looking at human nature. In truth, all people are flawed and the same human being always does both good and bad, triumphs but then also fails.
There is no game in which “reality” goes to bat against any of us, Bill Gates included.
But even to accept the implied metaphor for a moment, I would hesitate to give home field advantage to media takedowns or salacious allegations. The accused should get to bat last, not the prosecution, even if the prosecutors claim to represent “reality.”
When it does get to be the ninth inning, given the sheer volume of good Mr. Gates has done the world through his philanthropy, I don’t see this one going to the bottom of the ninth anyway.
Looks like a blowout from here.
- vr46 5y agoThe volume of “good” effects remain, as does the volume of the bad ones. It’s rightly debatable whether the philanthropy is actually good or not, but anyway. What Gates has been doing - for many years, and is widely reported upon - is pushing the “good” stuff in a PR campaign to make himself look better after the decades of looking like a villain. The “media” isn’t doing any kind of takedown here, it’s mainly reporting on events, and rightly so, because we’re talking about sexual harassment by someone with a lot of power. I don’t entirely know what the last two paragraphs meant but presuming that you mean that time will be the judge.