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MonsieurJongleur70 karma

I think she's harkening back his first book, Trust me, I'm lying, where he illustrated how click bait sites like Gawker manufacture news

MonsieurJongleur12 karma

I often wonder about powerful people and what they do when they're sitting on the toilet. Everyone needs to fill a few minutes of downtime, so if it's not reddit, what is it?

Sure, it would be cool to hear how so-and-so consumes (or doesn't consume) media, but I think the litmus test has really got to be, what do you read when you're taking a shit?

MonsieurJongleur11 karma

I know you apprenticed under Robert Greene, who wrote 48 Laws of Power.

It almost feels like this book is a modern case study for 48 Laws; would you agree?

MonsieurJongleur6 karma

Well, yeah, but the clean part is pretty much just trust on the part of the public. If it's rotten through and through, it shows, but until that point, a slight dirty union looks a lot like a clean one.