[Tex Pro]

(09-11-2013 10:20 AM)Blackhawk Wrote:  

(09-11-2013 09:18 AM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:  

This tale just brings home the fact that it pays to be self-employed.

Like you won't get blacklisted as a contractor for what you say? Like there aren't movements to boycott companies because of the owners?

Pax took a strategy that's common in technology: Become indispensable and irreplaceable, and they have to endure whatever you say as long as its not too public.

The thing is, Twitter was something akin to 4chan when he started posting there. Smart phone were rare, cutting edge, elitist and cool. Few people had them, fewer yet knew what Twitter was.

Now every flunky college student has a twitter account. And so its eroded from a private backwater into a public place while he wasn't looking.

Western Europe, and by extension America, has long had this double life. You can be a fine upstanding man of the public. You can also frequent every brothel in the city. But as long as A) You don't do your deeds in broad daylight and B) You always deny it publicly, it's not spoken about in public, only whispered about in corners.

I used to find this hypocrisy. But now I recognize it's actually a trait that's needed by a culture if it's to succeed when competing against other cultures.

Men can only be open about our true opinions in private among good company. We will always have to keep up appearances for the general public. If we are to live in a successful culture.

There was a time when men could act like men.

Maybe those days are gone, but let's not pretend those days didn't exist.

Hell, a popular TV show built its entire series around this.