
This confirms the ideas of this piece on virtue signaling and particularly that “It is even more, much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences”. Without skin in the game, there can be no morals, no virtue. In that review, Sontag was probably explicitly saying that she is not able to live out the ideals s…
… in a series of “rules”. Like everything it did, these were constructed piecemeal from pop culture. Rule #1 was taken from Fight Club’s Rule # 1, “Don’t talk about 4chan”. All the rules had a Lord of the Flies vibe to them, that is to say, they were very obviously create…