Lol sure And I'm sure the Chapo guys fell into their shtick by deep natural empathy and years of rigorous empirical study to learn what people truly want and need, and not because they had an online audience giving them a dopamine rush of likes and RTs for brutal owns
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Ironically, the person I'm thinking of most here IS a Swarthmore grad, when Micah White worked for Adbusters and wrote that big viral Bush-era piece about how the concept of polling and demographic research is inherently neoliberal and will only produce neoliberal campaigns
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Same kind of rhetoric - can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, can't fight capitalism by putting evil marketers and advertisers in positions of power, etc It all sounds good until you ask the obvious question - "Then how do you know what people think"
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Okay and do you think if your job is politics you have some obligation to TRY to win, to actually change your behavior based on using the brain God gave you to figure out what works and what doesn't (using tools invented by "credentialed" experts)
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