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Chris Jesu Lee's avatar

Yes, the merging of social advocacy with celebrity culture and media careers has been a disaster. There's always an incentive danger with professionalizing this field because when people's careers depend on a problem continuing to exist, there's an obvious conflict of interest. But by fusing celebrity and media with social advocacy, the worst types of narcissists and their supporters have become too dominant. The same problem is also seen in social "anti-advocacy," with the anti-woke crowd being led by Hollywood failures (Rufo, Shapiro, Walsh) and everyone fighting to carve out their own territory in the media landscape.

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Jefferson Hawkins's avatar

This is a great article and brings a lot of clarity to the SPTV movement. I was In Scientology for 35 years and I have written 3 books on the subject, telling my story and also deconstructing Scientology’s control mechanisms. I have appeared on may of the SPTV channels as a guest but have tried to stay out of the fray, which I consider counterproductive at best. I appreciate your take on the SPTV evolution and I think all involved with SPTV should read it.

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