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The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

— David Foster Wallace The Pale King (2011)

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It is to say that he has exactly one on-air job, and that is to be stimulating.

John Ziegler, who is a talk-radio host of unflagging industry, broad general knowledge, mordant wit, and extreme conviction, makes a particular specialty of media criticism.

Hosting talk radio is an exotic, high-pressure gig that not many people are fit for, and being truly good at it requires skills so specialized that many of them don't have names.

The fact of the matter is that it is not John Ziegler's job to be responsible, or nuanced, or to think about whether his on-air comments are productive or dangerous, or cogent, or even defensible.

Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

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