Grifter? Meaningless unless you view your own success in the marketplace of ideas, deep down, as a hustle. Cynical? Few people are J Carville-esque happy warrior-cynics moving pieces on the chessboard. Most people mean well, even if they end up meaning nothing
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I won't append "cynical" or "grifter" even to the most egregious plutocrats. They're performing a class role, but I don't care about the content of their hearts, the way Jesus giving the sermon on the mount might have cared (but really, he exhorts you to care about YOUR heart)
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The fact that members of the "smart set" are out there calling their market rivals "cynics" or "grifters" is their way of slapping "organic fair trade" on their own packaging. Ignore it and move on
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It's akin to them purporting to "do the work" more than you "do the work" if you question some half-baked bit of conventional wisdom they're repeating. "NOW WITH 1000% MORE DOING THE WORK...ALWAYS HERE FOR IT...THE BRAND YOU LOVE TO SEE"
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Oh, there are "grifts" out there, such as using your nonprofit to launder a million bucks in contributor money, etc. But this same term is frequently applied to someone who gets $500 for a thumbsucking wet fart of an opinion piece in the Atlantic
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The first one is surely a phony, but the second one...who can say, absent more information? A lot of folks mean well, even if they mean nothing, and they're trying to share what they believe are the "correct thoughts," although they're incapable of thinking them on their own
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I think thinking #1 and #2 gives them too much credit. Many literally know nothing, in the sense that knowing takes rigor, and they just want to shape insipid, sophomoric product that will help be liked, accepted, or move up the ladder. Workplace politics in public, almost.
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I mean, when I was a prof, I taught a few folks who went on to do that work, and let me tell you...I wouldn't have trusted them to get all the items on my grocery list. No knock on them, of course, that's just how it is. But they do know how to be liked/chase clout, which is bad
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