'Seems' that "virtue-signaling" has a hoary if not venerable provenance.
In a "note from our sponsor", my own kick at that particular kitty in my Medium essay on "Being X versus identifying-as X", on the dichotomy between reality and illusion, on the fact that too many these days seem to have lost sight of the profound difference between substance and appearance:
I might even go so far as to say there's a lot of "seeming" even more than "being" these days. Esse quam videri!
Ooh, yes. Guy Debord said something similar.
Learn something new every day ... 🙂
"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esse_quam_videri
'Seems' that "virtue-signaling" has a hoary if not venerable provenance.
In a "note from our sponsor", my own kick at that particular kitty in my Medium essay on "Being X versus identifying-as X", on the dichotomy between reality and illusion, on the fact that too many these days seem to have lost sight of the profound difference between substance and appearance:
https://medium.com/@steersmann/reality-and-illusion-being-vs-identifying-as-77f9618b17c7