diversity

[kelley]

At 09:31 PM 9/20/01 +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
>>From: kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net>
>>
>>given that we know that you do the non-academic version of what the
>>economist does, i suppose that Brad was legitimately disgusted.
>
>Hokey smokes, PR is synonymous in most people's mind with BS.  It makes no 
>claims to anything other than trying to put some paying client in the best 
>light.  It is, as you say, "non-academic."  Economics, OTOH, is a social 
>"science."  It makes ludicrous claims to being objective when its abiding 
>aim is to tell people that there is no alternative to the global 
>capitalist dispensation that now exists.

most economists do legitimate the status quo. as do most social scientists. 
lefties with a brain are pretty well aware that what we do legitimates the 
status quo. we don't expect our professions to change the world.

but you do and therein lies the problem.


>Besides, I am not now a PR writer.  I am an *unemployed* PR writer, which 
>gives me that much more time to Ponder Things Deeply and Speak Out on the 
>Issues.  Lucky you.

i'm sorry to hear that you're unemployed. i wondered about that. post away.

but hey, we need someone in sales/PR for a new book -- PearlHarbor.com (no 
it was written long ago. we had to edit the part out about a plane crashing 
into symbolic US building.) you get to work from home! not that we could 
possibly afford long isalnd COL, but hey!

kelley


>Carl
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