Was that an endosymbiosis jab? You anti-eukaryote bastard!
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And in the meantime, you can always spin the colossal failures into successes. One of my favorite examples is Chevron’s “People do” campaign from the late 90’s. It won advertising awards. You remember: “Do people really restore coral reefs, etc? People do. Chevron logo.” The thing is, every example Chevron used in that campaign was something they were ordered to do by the government, because they are a gross polluter. The PR spin made it seem like it was out of the goodness of their hearts, but they have no hearts. None of the clean up would have been done without a court order.
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Right, reminds of when bp suddenly became an environmental group. I wonder if they started spying on themselves at that point?
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I love this documentary… but it’s four parts, not 3… Archive.org has it and the full thing is up on Youtube.
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It’s amazing that Bernays isn’t more infamous! I try to point people to this as much as I can. It does have a way of getting taken down- I assume due to the BBC’s lawyers.
Yeah, me neither–he should be pretty well- known. Walter Lippman is slight more well known. I always like to tell the “torches of freedom” story in class, because I think that really shows how the whole thing operated, the rise of a particular form of consumer capitalism and how that interacts with a democratic system. But I think it’s also a great example of a structural view of modernity, too.
The pragmatism isn’t any willful blindness, it’s just seeing things as they are and not going to the extreme, like the people who (for example) demonize Obama despite the good he’s accomplished and who are so obsessed with purity that they will ‘cut their noses to spite their faces’ by refusing to vote for the Democratic party despite the party passing a health-care act that helps millions of people. The moderates also aren’t ‘unwilling to confront sexism, racism, poverty, police brutality, and all the other evils in this society’ as you say, they are doing so.
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Include everybody’s darling Gates on that list too: loads spent on union busting, demonizing teachers and pushing the privatization of education.
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I have no problem adding, what is he these days, number 5 (?), to the list.
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You are baiting survivors. You are bragging about your neutrality between us and the neo-Nazis who attack us, who beat us unconscious.
Check out this one weird thing about rich people and the legacies they leave:
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Read that story-a tragic one, and sad that this could happen to children no matter what station in life they are.
And a fantastic example of everyone around them being sucked into the vortex and not sticking out their necks to assist.
Wow.
So anybody that makes a million is automatically a fascist? Okay then.
And people say that I’m a blowhard.
What. the. fuck? Your reply has absolutely nothing to do with anything I’ve said. Anyone who brags about being neutral, not taking sides between violent neo-Nazis and their victims, however…
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