The article about disinformation hits very close. The people who I know are involved with the disinfo industry are generally young women who would've gone into HR 5 years earlier. Ghastly little tyrants they are, I'm sure you know the type. Conform to the stereotype almost to the T. SSRI-eyed college graduates with little concern for tru…
The article about disinformation hits very close. The people who I know are involved with the disinfo industry are generally young women who would've gone into HR 5 years earlier. Ghastly little tyrants they are, I'm sure you know the type. Conform to the stereotype almost to the T. SSRI-eyed college graduates with little concern for truth or justice.
At least during the totalitarian regimes of the early 20th century they were honest about what they were. Some apparatchik working at the ministry of public enlightenment could be pointed out. They knew what they were. Our modern "disinformation experts" genuinely believe that they are objective and true. I can hardly think of people I hate more as a group than they.
It's a new, massive, sprawling industry that is very well-funded and is absorbing a significant segment of graduates with otherwise useless university degrees.
It is a make-work scheme for graduates who are superfluous to the needs of the productive side of the economy. If the masses end up on UBI, the disinfo industry will enrich and empower this strata of the email caste in much the same way that the managers of the workhouses did in Victorian England (think of Mr Bumble in OLIVER TWIST).
The beauty of this is that the regime's need for countering disinformation is unlimited and the costs are passed on by Silicon Valley to the consumers. The dissidents and skeptics supply the 'disinfo' that needs to be corrected while people with the wrong thoughts who read their stuff constitute the insoluble problem to be managed. The apparatchiks are deployable across all areas, because they need no skill other than following the cues from the regime's 'experts'.
D-notices were honest? COINTELPRO was honest? I'm sure many of people working in those 20th ct. propaganda apparatus were convinced of the rightness of their campaigns of lies just as these "women" you seem to find problematic.
Justice or truth has rarely, if ever, been a concern for governments, whether of kings, or parliaments. An appearance of justice is necessary to justify the monopoly on usage force, but never truth or justice itself. Specific people might care, but the institution as a whole doesn't. Even an institution as (royal) "science" whose existence is justified as a pursuit of truth is plagued by conflicting, subterranean drives and motives.
For the people who make a living within it, justice is an industry. A source of jobs, power, respect and other thrills.
In the UK there was a chief justice in the mid 20th c. who habitually ejaculated when delivering the death sentence. Ex-schoolmates recalled that even as a child the future was fascinated by the death penalty and would entertain the other boys by reciting the death sentence ("The sentence of this court is that you will be taken from here to the place from whence you came..."). The claims about the late chief justice's behaviour were made by his clerk, who kept a spare pair of freshly pressed trousers on hand when he expected they'd be needed.
As Kant pointed out, nothing straight has ever been fashioned from the crooked timber of humanity.
DEI has proven to be a corporate fig-leaf. DEI officers are being laid off and their departments shuttered across the business sector:
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd’s murder inspired them
The attrition rate for DEI roles was 33% at the end of 2022, compared to 21% for non-DEI roles. Amazon, Applebees and Twitter lead the way with DEI layoffs since July 2022, according to Revelio Labs, a New York-based company that uses data to analyze workforce dynamics and trends.
Another survey showed that Black employees represent only 3.8% of chief diversity officers overall, with white people making up 76.1% of the roles. Those of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity make up 7.8% and those of Asian ethnicity make up 7.7%
From this I think we can safely extrapolate that the Woke agenda’s acceptance by business was a fig-leaf nearly across the board. And how could it not be? PMC Woke is X-face. Profit and power are of course the real goals.
Not so fast: ESG continues to insert itself into business, with Larry Fink of BlackRock doubling down on it. Link to Bloomberg piece - https://archive.is/cbdp8
If you're in the business world, ESG is everywhere.
The article about disinformation hits very close. The people who I know are involved with the disinfo industry are generally young women who would've gone into HR 5 years earlier. Ghastly little tyrants they are, I'm sure you know the type. Conform to the stereotype almost to the T. SSRI-eyed college graduates with little concern for truth or justice.
At least during the totalitarian regimes of the early 20th century they were honest about what they were. Some apparatchik working at the ministry of public enlightenment could be pointed out. They knew what they were. Our modern "disinformation experts" genuinely believe that they are objective and true. I can hardly think of people I hate more as a group than they.
It's a new, massive, sprawling industry that is very well-funded and is absorbing a significant segment of graduates with otherwise useless university degrees.
It is a make-work scheme for graduates who are superfluous to the needs of the productive side of the economy. If the masses end up on UBI, the disinfo industry will enrich and empower this strata of the email caste in much the same way that the managers of the workhouses did in Victorian England (think of Mr Bumble in OLIVER TWIST).
The beauty of this is that the regime's need for countering disinformation is unlimited and the costs are passed on by Silicon Valley to the consumers. The dissidents and skeptics supply the 'disinfo' that needs to be corrected while people with the wrong thoughts who read their stuff constitute the insoluble problem to be managed. The apparatchiks are deployable across all areas, because they need no skill other than following the cues from the regime's 'experts'.
Yes, this. The result of having too many priests and not enough pulpits. Solution: make more pulpits.
Not just pulpits...pillories too!
D-notices were honest? COINTELPRO was honest? I'm sure many of people working in those 20th ct. propaganda apparatus were convinced of the rightness of their campaigns of lies just as these "women" you seem to find problematic.
Justice or truth has rarely, if ever, been a concern for governments, whether of kings, or parliaments. An appearance of justice is necessary to justify the monopoly on usage force, but never truth or justice itself. Specific people might care, but the institution as a whole doesn't. Even an institution as (royal) "science" whose existence is justified as a pursuit of truth is plagued by conflicting, subterranean drives and motives.
Let's not idealize a non-existent past.
For the people who make a living within it, justice is an industry. A source of jobs, power, respect and other thrills.
In the UK there was a chief justice in the mid 20th c. who habitually ejaculated when delivering the death sentence. Ex-schoolmates recalled that even as a child the future was fascinated by the death penalty and would entertain the other boys by reciting the death sentence ("The sentence of this court is that you will be taken from here to the place from whence you came..."). The claims about the late chief justice's behaviour were made by his clerk, who kept a spare pair of freshly pressed trousers on hand when he expected they'd be needed.
As Kant pointed out, nothing straight has ever been fashioned from the crooked timber of humanity.
Found on internet:
DEI has proven to be a corporate fig-leaf. DEI officers are being laid off and their departments shuttered across the business sector:
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd’s murder inspired them
The attrition rate for DEI roles was 33% at the end of 2022, compared to 21% for non-DEI roles. Amazon, Applebees and Twitter lead the way with DEI layoffs since July 2022, according to Revelio Labs, a New York-based company that uses data to analyze workforce dynamics and trends.
Another survey showed that Black employees represent only 3.8% of chief diversity officers overall, with white people making up 76.1% of the roles. Those of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity make up 7.8% and those of Asian ethnicity make up 7.7%
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/diversity-roles-disappear-three-years-george-floyd-protests-inspired-rcna72026
From this I think we can safely extrapolate that the Woke agenda’s acceptance by business was a fig-leaf nearly across the board. And how could it not be? PMC Woke is X-face. Profit and power are of course the real goals.
Not so fast: ESG continues to insert itself into business, with Larry Fink of BlackRock doubling down on it. Link to Bloomberg piece - https://archive.is/cbdp8
If you're in the business world, ESG is everywhere.