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Here's a bit more detail from Rick Perlstein.
The Trap: Selling out to Stay Afloat in Winner Take All America, by David Brook
Amazon link. From Publishers Weekly: Twenty-something journalist Brook sees the best minds of his generation scrivening away as corporate lawyers and accountants, and he's furious about it. His fresh and striking pay-gap polemic laments the plight of "educated, idealistic young people" who must...
You put it so nicely, Phil. Here's my version of it from a few months ago, with apologies for quoting myself to total strangers.
"It's the old, "When I said you lacked basic human decency what I really meant was 'Here's a coupon for free ice cream'' defence. Notice how it expands the reach of the writer's right to talk rubbish while narrowly constraining your right to object to it. He sets the meanings, and you agree.
But the vagueness of the language is also cover for an agenda, which is to get consent and countenance for the big lie (sorry, basic principle) he's pushing. Later, the reader's silence becomes "agreement for the sake of argument" which becomes "agreement" which becomes "Oh, yes, I assure you, you signed the deal; here's your signature in blood, and my Dark Lord Satan's signature right next to it, you see.""
Funding Obfuscation and Misdirection for Political Return on Investment
Gall and Gumption on intellectual integrity. Do think tank thinkers hold themselves bound by it, Mr. Shambra? Or, is it understood, and socially accepted by their professional guild, that a think tank thinker starts with a conclusion, bought and paid for, and then fits to that conclusion the arg...
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