>>13094108>>13094262i find the overall trend of increasing image consciousness troubling because it indicates a necessary equal decrease in substance consciousness.
for example, 30 years ago when Sting tried make himself the official global spokesman for the rainforests, he was laughed at and his entertainment career suffered as a result. that was because the dude was a nonscientist with no other credibility and didn't know what he was talking about.
these days gretchen thunderburp is widely accepted as a scientific authority figure and all of her chicken little stories are given the benefit of the doubt even though she couldn't even graduate high school
