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FINAL WORD

if you can’t afford to make enemies—you’re a publicist. No offence, publicists do useful work and are also great suppliers of free drinks. That it feels pedantic or naive to say this today is a sign of how messed up the ecosystem is—we’re all frogs in boiling water. The remaining critics I know are either old enough to live off assets they accumulated before the extinctionlevel

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