asciilifeform: and much of what is seen here, is a reaction to that.
asciilifeform: my (admittedly limited) understanding is that 'obligatory faggotry' (where you gotta bend over for promotion or to get in the high crust etc) was always an undercurrent in anglo world
asciilifeform: the latter, at least to my untrained eye, looks more like marriage than whoredom
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldn't the 'my windfall catcher worx!11' approach be ~more~ emblematic of 'whoredom' than 'finally i found the great patron' ?
asciilifeform: i dun get it, how does laziness protect ?