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The bootlicking version of “why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?”

Would you say what you’re seeking is “more intimacy,” up to, potentially, the most possible intimacy?

I would suggest looking at his different interests and getting curious. If you’re interested in the guy, it should be pretty easy to find reasons why this film or that game are endearingly-this-or-that in a way that makes you like and respect him even more.

Then, you bond over it; by trusting his taste (intimacy) enough to check out that show or whatever interest, you now have an opportunity to get deep (intimacy) into what you each individually felt (intimacy) about it, and maybe you felt something in common. That’s some foundation for intimacy.

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I think it could very well be dissolving at least a coating. I would use more dilute IPA. 👍

I think it’s actually you who are misinformed, to an extent, as you’re painting with a brush so broad as to disregard the value and integrity of journalism entirely.

The news having changed is certainly true. For instance, the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine in the US in 1987. It “required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters.”

Furthermore, as “the fourth estate,” at it’s best journalism serves as a check on the power of the state and power - especially corporations. The muckrakers of the early 20th century, like Upton Sinclair, raised public awareness of corporate monopolies and unsafe worker conditions. Journalism was instrumental in fostering the knowledge and will necessary to claw workplace rights and protections from the rising capitalist class.

I more or less agree, but you keep using “believe” when you ought to use “belief.” Just FYI.

Good point well made. I think it’s usually naive wishful thinking (for a “just world” that makes sense and is going to be OK, actually) that allows a liberal capitalist apologist to point to classical economics and say “see the companies are hurting,” but the companies don’t have feelings, and the owners and shareholders are feeling just fine.