This is one way to counteract the last decade's ballooning scandals about writers and leaders who were offered awards or speaking engagements, only to have them abruptly withdrawn when their heresies were uncovered: hold your own awards and speaking engagements. Create your own schools, while you're at it.
It's interesting, in a way, that no one has really tried. Clearly there's no money behind the idea, which is surprising given that old people tend to control the money, and we'd all like our kids not to be turned into Communists.
ReplyDeleteOr as Flat Earthers did, make their own conventions, forcing the media to come to them.
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