David, you are absolutely right about this. The foundations and their paid proxies are given an access-all-areas pass in policy, regulation, media and even the courts. Yet they lack the internal controls or discipline to know (or care) what is right, so they do what they think works. That draws them to infantile, strong-but-wrong narratives that distort decision-making and cause all manner of harm for which they are never held accountable. They are a menace, and everyone taking their money is conflicted by the arbitrary policy preferences of their billionaire patrons.
Thank you Clive - I think they don't care. The activists I encounter have lost the passion or drive to make the world better (however naive) that campaigners in the 70s and 80s had. It's now just a technocratic job, the pay is good and in any case, nobody really cares. Maybe the poison of unlimited funding is an empty soul and a full belly.
David, you are absolutely right about this. The foundations and their paid proxies are given an access-all-areas pass in policy, regulation, media and even the courts. Yet they lack the internal controls or discipline to know (or care) what is right, so they do what they think works. That draws them to infantile, strong-but-wrong narratives that distort decision-making and cause all manner of harm for which they are never held accountable. They are a menace, and everyone taking their money is conflicted by the arbitrary policy preferences of their billionaire patrons.
Thank you Clive - I think they don't care. The activists I encounter have lost the passion or drive to make the world better (however naive) that campaigners in the 70s and 80s had. It's now just a technocratic job, the pay is good and in any case, nobody really cares. Maybe the poison of unlimited funding is an empty soul and a full belly.