A long time ago I observed a pattern among blogs. Announcing a big start usually leads to nothing much. Announcing a dramatic Goodbye usually leads to continued work.
Real productive action starts abruptly without any Hello and stops suddenly without any Goodbye.
Now I’m seeing the same thing in Substack, at least on the starting end. Several well-known writers made a big splash about their intention to be Outspoken and Fiercely Independent. They drew a quick burst of subscriptions. Then nothing much happens for a while. Sometimes they write an occasional tossed-off piece to keep the subscribers hanging on. In the worst case, after the Grand Outspoken Opening, the Independent Writer continues putting out the same perfectly orthodox Deepstate crap. He wasn’t constrained by the horrible censors at MSNBC or NYTimes, he was only constrained by the contracts and salary caps.
I’ve always recognized that many “firings for politics” were fake on the boss end, usually a personal dispute that couldn’t be officially described as personal. Now I think most current cancellings are fake on the employee end. They’re like lease-breaking parties, engaging in “outrageous” behavior guaranteed to cause cancelling, with the public blaming the boss.
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