New York Times gift articles

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The existential sigh that I utter each time I read something like this.

There's a cadre of highly-educated, well-paid consultants, sitting there in a board room somewhere with a cool shit-eating nothingburger of an organization name like McKinsey emblazoned on the wall, with a dossier/mission objective of:

"How do we fuck up public discourse about human rights, so people vote, speak, and act against their own well-being?"