The business model of the corporate media couldn't be more clear. Yet the people who are the product continually flatter themselves on their perspicacity. Many of them are aware of comparable exploitation dynamics and rightly object to them. Their blind spot, however, is their own position. I've long found that fascinating. The "good edu…
The business model of the corporate media couldn't be more clear. Yet the people who are the product continually flatter themselves on their perspicacity. Many of them are aware of comparable exploitation dynamics and rightly object to them. Their blind spot, however, is their own position. I've long found that fascinating. The "good education" hypothesis seems like the best bet. It includes acculturation to career-friendly conformism and socialization within a career-friendly cohort. That's hard to break away from, not least because so many of the people in that milieu are really nice, helpful, kind, smart, caring—with an enormous blind spot, no way to even begin to understand it and excellent tools for denying it.
The business model of the corporate media couldn't be more clear. Yet the people who are the product continually flatter themselves on their perspicacity. Many of them are aware of comparable exploitation dynamics and rightly object to them. Their blind spot, however, is their own position. I've long found that fascinating. The "good education" hypothesis seems like the best bet. It includes acculturation to career-friendly conformism and socialization within a career-friendly cohort. That's hard to break away from, not least because so many of the people in that milieu are really nice, helpful, kind, smart, caring—with an enormous blind spot, no way to even begin to understand it and excellent tools for denying it.
* mic drop *