Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 151

Media Apologist Irony

There are ideas that shout. Media Apologist Irony is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

At the polling booth, the queue is the one place the CEO and the driver stand at the same height. Whatever else one says about it, that hour is a small miracle of design.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.