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Dec 1, 2023Liked by K.E. Cronin

There is good $ in the race industrial complex which is why it exists & it keeps people divided, same with left & right. People actually have a lot more in common than they realize but as long as they don't know that they are easier to control & make money off of all day long.

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My dad was an administrator for a graduate social work program. Years ago I recall his sadness that a well-known person he had booked to speak at the school was all about the money after the performance. I think true heroes are too busy to seek notoriety.

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Dec 3, 2023Liked by K.E. Cronin

I got an email from Indeed today for a DEI specialist director at a very pricy private school nearby, the salary was $150-170, I looked into the org behind it & I cannot find any info on what they make like a normal org. Very big industry and they can shove their way into any company, school or anywhere else put their feet up on the table and demand $.

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Yep, you are right. I read an email on commercial real estate and the writer discussed how the financialization of the industry made historic changes. It made me think about how the financialization of various concepts has made big differences from the DEI industrialization, based on what had been real grievances in the past, to the monetization of self-care. Capitalism can go too far as the Neo-Marxists predicted. But their solution of abolishing the family structure is wrong. It is the strong family structure and our relationship with others that serves as the limit.

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Very much enjoyed and agree with your association of privilege with advertising, the great modern American art form. Most of us tend to dismiss the power of advertising in our own lives. That, however, belies the fact that since the 1950s, American industry has invested many trillions (yup, you read that right) of dollars in selling their products and services to you and me. No one spends trillions of dollars on something without verifiable reason to do so. That we so casually dismiss the power of advertising is also very much in keeping with the general trap of all addictions -- regardless of the narcotic: that we tend to underestimate the power of the narcotic while we exaggerate our own power to resist it.

The entire woke agenda is a Frankenstein creation of electronic media as a state-sponsored default addiction, and a pernicious form of class warfare against poor and middle-class people of all colors worldwide.

Good job, K.E.!

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Thank you very much for reading the post and the comment. The woke agenda is a strange Frankenstein creation. And once you think about it, it would be because it was human-created and not organic.

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