Both Mara and Hadley disagreed with me when I talked about my concerns on marketing last month. Marketing was not the main topic of that post, and I want to clarify my thoughts in this post.
The medium is the message
I’m not against marketing. I do it myself, too. I definitely agree with Mara’s comment that meritocracy is a fantasy:
I think there’s a tendency to imagine a platonic ideal of meritocracy in the absence of something we call …