"The purpose of business is to solve the problems of people and planet profitably, and not profit from causing problems." —The British Academy
The principle applies to the journalism business, the purpose of which is to inform profitably, and not be like CNN and Fox who profit from misinforming.
"The purpose of business is to solve the problems of people and planet profitably, and not profit from causing problems." —The British Academy
The principle applies to the journalism business, the purpose of which is to inform profitably, and not be like CNN and Fox who profit from misinforming.
The media and the audience are to blame in the same way that the liquor store and the alcoholic are to blame for alcoholism.
Addiction is "a compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences." In this case, the rewarding stimuli is blame. The authoritarian's message is, "Those other people who are responsible for your unhappiness will be defeated." And it works because it makes the authoritarian's supporters feel better. So, the authoritarian is like a drug dealer selling fentanyl, except fentanyl only destroys lives, families, and communities one at a time, whereas the authoritarian is selling something with the power to destroy civilization.
"[T]he authoritarian is like a drug dealer selling fentanyl, except fentanyl only destroys lives, families, and communities one at a time, whereas the authoritarian is selling something with the power to destroy civilization."
"The purpose of business is to solve the problems of people and planet profitably, and not profit from causing problems." —The British Academy
The principle applies to the journalism business, the purpose of which is to inform profitably, and not be like CNN and Fox who profit from misinforming.
The media and the audience are to blame in the same way that the liquor store and the alcoholic are to blame for alcoholism.
Addiction is "a compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences." In this case, the rewarding stimuli is blame. The authoritarian's message is, "Those other people who are responsible for your unhappiness will be defeated." And it works because it makes the authoritarian's supporters feel better. So, the authoritarian is like a drug dealer selling fentanyl, except fentanyl only destroys lives, families, and communities one at a time, whereas the authoritarian is selling something with the power to destroy civilization.
"[T]he authoritarian is like a drug dealer selling fentanyl, except fentanyl only destroys lives, families, and communities one at a time, whereas the authoritarian is selling something with the power to destroy civilization."
Well said, James.