Antony Blinken, Alissa Heinerscheid, and The Great Gatsby
I've already said, speaking of Alissa Heinerscheid, the former Bud Light marketing VP who hitched her wagon to Dylan Mulvaney's star, that something about her reminded me of The Great Gatsby . This may have to do with the peculiar intersection of upper-crust society, the presumptive locus of stability and social confidence, with ambitious upward mobility, insecurity, and phoniness. We saw it with Ms Heinerscheid, the product of generational family wealth, Groton, Harvard, and The Episcopal Church, who nevertheless felt the need to hire a coach to tell her how to think : As it turns out, the Bud VP has herself a “professional coach.”. . . when speaking of her professional coach, she becomes animated, shifting her posture to a straighter, higher position, indicating she holds her “handler’s” ideas in higher esteem than her own. When shifting back into expressing her own thoughts or personal experience, Heinerscheid’s body language shrinks and retreats. Just recently, I...