Interesting idea, to save your best oration until after the first rejection. Does anyone here do this? When I was involved in student government in college I s

Interesting idea, to save your best oration until after the first rejection. Does anyone here do this? When I was involved in student government in college I successfully pulled off a stunt similar to this against an obdurate administration. A group of deans had started a process by which they were going to take some public, widely opposed actions that would be deleterious to campus life. They had started a series of negotiations with the heads of some major student organizations, plus me (as president of the student body), ostensibly to come to a mediated response with all of the stakeholders. At the penultimate meeting, our student coalition came to the administration with a reasonable, but amended version of the plan that we were willing to accept. They thanked us profusely and told us and the student newspaper that they were reviewing the proposal and integrating it into their plan. At the last meeting, they presented us with the "final plan" they were going to execute. It turned out that they had incorporated none of our changes; the series of meetings had been an elaborate kabuki designed for the illusion of "listening to the students." I'd prepared the other students for what we'd do if this turned out to be the case. At the meeting, I told the deans that it was clear that they had no real interest in incorporating student opinions and that for them to unapologetically discard our changes meant that the whole thing was a farce. If they wanted to execute their plan while systematically disregarding student input, that's wholly their prerogative, but we have no interest in helping them with the appearance of gathering student input. If and when they were actually interested in student input, we'd love to help them but until then there was no sense wasting time with meetings. Every one of the student leaders got up and left the room as we'd done in contingency planning. The deans caved 36 hours later. Did anyone else not find the quality of discussion low? Poor logic and superficial, emotional responses. Reminds me why I stopped watching (almost all) television. I think your analysis is superficial, actually. The show is quite nuanced. This was a snippet, depicting one of the characters trying to sell a lipstick ad; I don't think anything in the scene is enough for someone to conclude that the show is plagued by poor logic.