Toward a Theory of Kevin Roose
Nick Heer,
Pixel Envy,
Jun 19, 2025
Nick Heer, quoting Albert Burneko, Defector: "My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions." As he adds, "The whole point is to turn someone's being correct — not right, in any moral or ethical sense, nor principled, but merely correct — into money." It's a dreadfully cynical view of the world, but that is not to say it is not accurate. When we talk about what matters, who is in power, and what counts as ethics, we need to take these perspectives into account as well. Not that I endorse this perspective for a moment. But how awful it would be if this is what we're teaching in schools.
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