Another Internet story

Apparently there's girls on this Internet thing. Fo' reals. Of these, some daytrade. Others, however, are anthropologists, or whatever else. Mindlifelivers, as it were. Sewing their own clothes. Allow me to transcribe :

Sarah Kendzior
"The Articles Will Stop When The Exploitation Stops". A must-read on the #highered problem from @pankisseskafka Open Letter to Amy Pistone, Ph.D. Student in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan: The Articles Will Stop When The Exploitation Stops

No, my reaction to you, personally, is “Oh, bless her heart—she’ll learn soon enough.” Because it’s not your fault—there are people in charge of mentoring you who are making you think this way, and my beef is with them. To them, I say: sure, keep telling me to shut up. See how that goes for you. Keep telling Sarah Kendzior to shut up—her superpowers are such that such admonishment just makes her stronger, and as a result her next piece for AJE will probably get ten million Facebook Shares.

Mircea Popescu
@sarahkendzior @pankisseskafka Sorry, I lolled at the "will get >9mn shares" apocalypse.

Sarah Kendzior
@Mircea_Popescu I LOLed multiple times. @pankisseskafka is proving a master of the takedown.

Mircea Popescu
Well, what amused me was the unintentional selfcrit. So 10mn shares. So what ? Exploitation is about power.

Sarah Kendzior
Not exactly sure what you're getting at, but you have possibly taken @pankisseskafka piece a bit too literally.

Mircea Popescu
Think about it. So the articles don't stop. So ? Some guy gets 9479348573498 FB shares. So ? eImpotence.

Rebecca Schuman
10 million would make you the Justin Bieber of journalists and you would thus launch a cologne brand.

Mircea Popescu
And you think the life of the cologne-brand launcher is different from the life of the adjunct ?

Rebecca Schuman
It would probably smell better than most five-adjunct offices do.

Mircea Popescu
Now this is likely. Life of the nostrils smells better than life of the mind huh.

Sarah Kendzior
While this is going in an amusingly bizarre direction, her point is that efforts to silence people on subject don't work.

Mircea Popescu
That's fine. My point is that the effort of the vocal people don't work either inasmuch as FB shares are the measure.

Sarah Kendzior
I agree. But one thing that held adjuncts back was admonishment to be silent. Now they know their own strength in numbers.

Mircea Popescu
They have absolutely no strength in numbers. There's many kids who don't want to work and few paychecks to throw around.

Rebecca Schuman
I literally eat my blog views. The ones I don't eat, I wear. The rest I use to barter for things. It's cool.

Mircea Popescu
I imagine this eat-blogviews/wear-blogviews approach makes you one lithe nude chick.

Rebecca Schuman
You'd imagine wrong, because I also eat a lot of other stuff all day long, and I sew my own clothes.

Mircea Popescu
You know this sounds practically indistinguishable from your average industrious bum.

Rebecca Schuman
There are days when I am similarly indistinguishable.

Ahh, lovely Twitter that one has such conversations with. Ahh, wonderful world that has such variety in it.

As to you, my dear reader, what wife appeals ? The life of the mind ? The life of the nostrils ? The life of the camwhoring daytrader ? I confess it's my considered opinion that the nuns, be they confined in a centrally controlled, tax dollar sponsored nunnery or otherwise out somewhere in the bushes sewing their own clothes and being independently-skimĩnikŭ all by themselves and "on their own terms" are squarely in the wrong.

I confess I believe life is all about exploitation, a life bereft of exploitation being not worth living. Whether one's actively exploiting the life of others for their own ends, or whether one's wilfully submitting to someone else's exploitation of their own life is immaterial. The one thing to avoid is specifically the avoidance of exploitation, because that always ends up in the worst kind of exploitation there is : the exploitation of the living by the unliving. Be it ideas, principles or simple dumbass boneheadedness, it's still the worst fate flesh can meet.

I confess I'm absolutely correct in these beliefs.