Ask HN: Why so much Stoics on HN?
I can only speak for myself, of course, and my primary motivation for ditching places like Slashdot (among others) in favor of HN was to get away from the blatant, fervent, and persistent editorializing of their staff (which is a new phenomenon, from their relatively recent hires like BeauHD and msmash), and the ideological push I see from journalists everywhere.<p>This can easily be explained by stoicism - both in the wish to remain clear and unbiased, and objectively reasoned.<p>I don&#x27;t mind bias from a source, if the source wears it on their sleeve. The best newspaper in my country is a radical one on the far end of a spectrum, and it&#x27;s essentially one of 3 that still do any kind of investigative journalism. They advertise their bias in their header.