After training generations of Americans to forego personal lives and work their brains to mush in service of bigger profits, corporate leaders are waking up to find their companies staffed by people so psychologically dependent upon validation from work that theyโre a net minus from a production standpoint, forcing bosses to beg them to shut up, go home, and get lives.His account of his own story is spot on too:
When I was caught up in my own cancelation episode, I was devastated, above all to see the effect it had on my family. Unlike Garcia-Martinez, I had past writings genuinely worth being embarrassed by, and I felt that it was important, morally and for my own mental health, to apologize in public. I didnโt fight for my career and reputation, and threw myself on the mercy of the court of public opinion.Apologies are always seen as weakness, and should never be done. If they are demanded, you should leave wherever you are at, because the demander is a moron.
I now know this is a mistake. The people who launch campaigns like this donโt believe in concepts like redemption or growth. An apology is just another thing theyโd like to get, like the removal of competition for advancement. These people arenโt idealists. Theyโre just ordinary greedy Americans trying to get ahead, using the tactics available to them, and itโs time to stop thinking of stories like this through any other lens.
It rejects, for example the central belief of Christianity that the death of Jesus was divinely ordained for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity: the atonement. Reddieโs Core Text states that โJesus died because of our sins and not for themโ as a โsubversive agitatorโ, a victim of โimperial greed and colonial corruptionโ. His life was a โstruggle for liberation of all oppressed peoplesโ.Jesus was not rebel against the law, but it's fulfillment. Those following this "rebel" Jesus should realize they're actually following the original rebel.