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The Financial Times responded by publishing a post that read ”Lv Abrdn aln” (Leave Abrdn alone), while City AM ran with a front page on Tuesday that read “Abrdn: an apology - sry we kp tkng th pss ot of yr mssng vwls”.}} | The Financial Times responded by publishing a post that read ”Lv Abrdn aln” (Leave Abrdn alone), while City AM ran with a front page on Tuesday that read “Abrdn: an apology - sry we kp tkng th pss ot of yr mssng vwls”.}} | ||
{{Drop|W|e live in | {{Drop|W|e live in}} an age of unparalleled stupidity. Charlatanry. Bad ideas — notions that are not just bad, but ''incoherent'' — persist: [[cryptocurrency]], [[stakeholder capitalism]], [[data modernism]], techno-utopianism, [[empathy]], critical theory psychological safety. | ||
Some of this we put down to a bullshit detector defeat device: that we must be nice, empathetic, respectful of other’s opinions with the aim of preserving at all costs — on pain of utter evisceration — psychological safety. | |||
[[Banter]] — once a productive tension-breaker, a way of building relationships and gently letting each other know when it is time to wind our necks in — is verboten. Certain beliefs are “protected characteristics” and so immune from casual mockery. | |||
Which is why it is such a relief to find a class of persons having no protected characteristics, deserving no compassion, for whom banter is absolutely game on: the financial services corporation. We should at once brush off it's snivelling. | |||
{{Sa}} | {{Sa}} | ||
*[[Banter]] | |||
*[[Reasons to hope we are in a post truth world]] | *[[Reasons to hope we are in a post truth world]] | ||