Ryan Holiday Quote
To borrow from Budd Schulberg’s description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, I was indulging myself in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch. I no longer have those illusions. Winston Churchill wrote of the appeasers of his age that each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. I was even more delusional. I thought I could skip being devoured entirely. It would never turn on me. I was in control. I was the expert. But I was wrong.
Ryan Holiday
To borrow from Budd Schulberg’s description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, I was indulging myself in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch. I no longer have those illusions. Winston Churchill wrote of the appeasers of his age that each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. I was even more delusional. I thought I could skip being devoured entirely. It would never turn on me. I was in control. I was the expert. But I was wrong.
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