Tom Walker wrote:
Pay fair and reasonable wages?
"It's easier and less controversial to see what everyone else is doing and
then do the same thing."
Tell the truth about what you're paying people?
"It would destroy all American business and Western civilization."
Thomas:
Well Tom I don't know what to say! So many of your posts are so right on
that it is hard to comment or critique. The idea - that Emperor has no
clothes comes to mind but somehow that seems a tired metaphor. The question
becomes what kind of truth will eventually penetrate the ordinary mind? All
those people, rushing to work every morning to solve the day's bus y nesses,
all those degrees and years of experience in learning how to deny truth and
support false realities - it really must get quite tiring. All those brains
focused on the acquisition of money and power - away beyond an rational or
humanistic drive - it really must be stressful.
Tom wrote:
Corporate and government leaders have developed a steadfast
remedy: deny, deny, deny.
Thomas:
They say in therapy that one of the most significant steps to a cure is to
acknowledge the problem and stop denying, denying, denying and much of
denial is rationalization based on "others" who are also denying. This
highly trained sense of logic that is supposedly the apex of our Western
Society is in turn the root of rationalization. Once that inescapable
thread of logic comes to a conclusion, it is almost impossible to go back
and test the basic assumptions, after all, who would want to destroy the
"logic" of a good theory. The wonder is that the malleability of the world
allows so many major distortions to continue. You mentioned the millennium
bug, how about global warming, pay equity, General Suharto, Brazilian rain
forests and on and on. How do you penetrate the logical mind with reality?
I confess I don't know.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
