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Relatedly, I saw in the thread that people call these types of deceptions as “smoke and mirrors” or “dog and pony show”. What happened to “Potemkin”?!
by dkga 3y ago
Relatedly, I saw in the thread that people call these types of deceptions as “smoke and mirrors” or “dog and pony show”. What happened to “Potemkin”?!
- godelski 3y agoI had never previously heard of that term but it does seem apt. I think idioms are often more cultural and can change rapidly while one might seem ubiquitous in your group it isn't in another. Another term I think might be apt, but a bit less so, is snake oil or snake oils sells man.
- Austizzle 3y agoPerhaps this is revealing my ignorance, but I've never even heard of potemkin before
- mrkstu 3y agoIf you grew up post USSR era it has probably fallen out of the lexicon for younger folk…
- gwd 3y agoThe nice thing about "Potemkin" is that there's a decent chance the video was also designed to fool their own CEOs (in response to an impossible request), just as the Potemkin Villages were used to fool the country's own ruler.
- banku_brougham 3y agoPotemkin product launch is the correct label.
- latexr 3y agoI’d wager most aren’t familiar with the term, and the majority of those who are will think of the battleship/movie, not the villages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village