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Well, as others have pointed out, it's not hard to read "think tank" as "pr firm". Sure, but it raises the question why there's a separate "think tank" term, e
by rhizome 9y ago
Well, as others have pointed out, it's not hard to read "think tank" as "pr firm".
Sure, but it raises the question why there's a separate "think tank" term, even more why think tanks refer to themselves as such.
- jerf 9y agoOh, that's easy; neither they nor the people donating to them want to think of them as pr firms. Think Tanks are so much more, you know, Think Tanky. I think such wonderful, glorious thoughts that people pay me just to think of these things, and write them down. That's way better than being in grubby PR. That's, like, a middle class job. This is a real job, that's, like, hard & shit, and I'm uniquely qualified on account of the rare and distinguished quality of my thoughts.