I just re-read the OP looking for something that I’d possibly describe as “sly insinuations about the PR industry”, and I couldn’t find any. What I read in it was a bunch of straight-forward claims about what the concept of PR tends to cause in people who use it, and some as-far-as-I-can-tell-completely-honest attempts to gesture at intuitions about how that works and why. Can you give an example of something in the OP that seems to you like it contains a sly insinuation about the PR industry?
What I read in it was a bunch of straight-forward claims about what the concept of PR tends to cause
What I didn’t read was support for those claims. Well, maybe “PR bad” is a thing everyone knows..but maybe “ingroups can get delusional about their moral purity” is something everyone knows.
I think it would be fairer to downvote the OP for making sly insinuations about the PR industry.
I just re-read the OP looking for something that I’d possibly describe as “sly insinuations about the PR industry”, and I couldn’t find any. What I read in it was a bunch of straight-forward claims about what the concept of PR tends to cause in people who use it, and some as-far-as-I-can-tell-completely-honest attempts to gesture at intuitions about how that works and why. Can you give an example of something in the OP that seems to you like it contains a sly insinuation about the PR industry?
What I didn’t read was support for those claims. Well, maybe “PR bad” is a thing everyone knows..but maybe “ingroups can get delusional about their moral purity” is something everyone knows.
Hm. For the record, I find this thought to be worth chewing on, so thank you.