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This seems like a little cognitive dissonance to me: > So where does that leave us? A 21-year-old wrote a blog post. A guy broke the corporate rules and got fi
by lionhearted 17y ago
This seems like a little cognitive dissonance to me:
> So where does that leave us? A 21-year-old wrote a blog post. A guy broke the corporate rules and got fired. The internet (and the blogger!) is outraged.
> But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.
What irony! The So Serious guy is calling out others on being not courteous and not humble in a discourteous, unhumble guy.
- pyre 17y agoNot even that, he's fueling the controversy that he's criticizing by writing this article.
- tbrooks 17y agoReally? How is Joshua's position arrogant and discourteous? He never attacks Dustin as a person. He calls Dustin's methods and actions into question. I fail to see the irony in this...
- ellyagg 17y agoFor one, he repeatedly makes a point of dcurtis' age. That's not really appropriate.
- unalone 17y agoIt is if part of his point's that the Internet's letting itself get worked up over what a not-completely-mature kid said. The fact that Hacker News and other sites have had this raging debate over Dustin's writing belies the fact that basically he's a college student mouthing off a big company, and that we're assuming against the odds that he knows more than an industry professional does. At that point it's absolutely appropriate to remind us of who Dustin is.