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Consequently, de Botton said he posted a response to the blog, that was intended for Crain alone to read.
“It was a private communication to his website, to him as a blogger,” he said. “It’s appalling that it seems that I’m telling the world.”
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Alain de Botton tells New York Times Reviewer, ‘I will hate you until I die’.
ADB is really smart and savvy and a good cultural critic, I think - I saw him speak at the School of Life on pessimism in April and was thoroughly impressed - so I am amazed by his apparent lapse in awareness here. Is one of our sharpest contemporary thinkers really this confused by the Internet’s blurring of the public and private spheres? This comment sounds madder than his original posting, which I found refreshingly honest and relatable.
