Jessa Crispin

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Plus: how do we square treating work like a religion and religion like a cult?

Was Mother Teresa's pursuit of asceticism simply masochism when directed at herself and sadism when demanded of her nuns? Photo: Jean-Claude Francolon / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images 
issue 07 August 2021

Work is our new religion. There are people whose primary job is writing listicles of celebrity gossip, illustrated with gifs from the Fast & Furious franchise, who refer to being a writer as a ‘calling’. If I think about this for too long my brain simply shuts down to protect itself.

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