Corporate philosophy, public relations, and unrestrained greed have left us with an illusory political system where no one takes responsibility and people are left to die
Do you mind if I copy and internally share the text from the section about corporations speaking out against the GA voting laws? I was talking about this very thing with the Diversity and Inclusion team at my work this morning and I was touching on some of these points.
Did not know that about Machiavelli as the first PR agent. In fact, I don't know much about him other than the well-worn adage "It's positively Machiavellian!". You must be unearthing all of this in your research for your new book.
Just finished that chapter and it’s really bizarre to see a new educated class start to realize religion was a veneer to hide power and see them begin to wrap their heads around the possibility of doing it themselves.
It kind of strikes me how the Republican Party is picking up the corporate sales tricks. That’s the gross underbelly of capitalism - if your product is based on people having problems that they need to solve, then you can’t make money if you actually solve the problem, because then you make yourself unnecessary. The model of continual growth and sales and fundraising requires you to reinvent new problems all the time, even fake ones, to be relevant. If commercials didn’t exist and society made us feel capable, whole, and empowered, then we wouldn’t have 500 sports drinks at the grocery store, 92 shampoos at the drug store, and 47 phone models to choose from. Trump is a salesman for fraudulent products; he knows how that game is played.
Do you mind if I copy and internally share the text from the section about corporations speaking out against the GA voting laws? I was talking about this very thing with the Diversity and Inclusion team at my work this morning and I was touching on some of these points.
Not a problem.
Did not know that about Machiavelli as the first PR agent. In fact, I don't know much about him other than the well-worn adage "It's positively Machiavellian!". You must be unearthing all of this in your research for your new book.
Just finished that chapter and it’s really bizarre to see a new educated class start to realize religion was a veneer to hide power and see them begin to wrap their heads around the possibility of doing it themselves.
It kind of strikes me how the Republican Party is picking up the corporate sales tricks. That’s the gross underbelly of capitalism - if your product is based on people having problems that they need to solve, then you can’t make money if you actually solve the problem, because then you make yourself unnecessary. The model of continual growth and sales and fundraising requires you to reinvent new problems all the time, even fake ones, to be relevant. If commercials didn’t exist and society made us feel capable, whole, and empowered, then we wouldn’t have 500 sports drinks at the grocery store, 92 shampoos at the drug store, and 47 phone models to choose from. Trump is a salesman for fraudulent products; he knows how that game is played.