Tom Walker wrote:
[snip]
> Three Mile Island melted down and so did Chernobyl. The space shuttle
> Challenger blew up. The Berlin wall was dismantled. The Soviet Union
> dissolved. Nelson Mandela got out of jail, passed go and collected $200.
> Bill Clinton didn't inhale. Free trade and global finance ran amok.
> Corporations downsized, outsourced and re-engineered. Governments turned on
> to monetarism, tuned in to the bond markets and dropped out. O.J. got off.
> The internet took off. Princess Di went out like a candle in the wind. The
> millennium bug lurked patiently, waiting for cue or cure.
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This is going to be a bit off topic (unless one considers advertising to
be
part of the dynamics of work in the contemporary world), but, since I'm
a regular poster (annoyance?) here, maybe it will be tolerated:
My topic is Princess Di. I heard on NPR Morning Edition a couple days
ago that they have established an official body in England to determine
what uses of the late Princess's name will be permitted. The commission
has approved such things as use of her name on plastic tubs of soft
margarine. But one use that was *NOT APPROVED* was to use Princess Di
in an advertisement to encourage persons to use their seat belts.
In my opinion, such a value set evidences the kind of hypocrisy which
favors things looking good over things working well. In America,
I think we have reached the point where people consider it more
consequential whether a person has recently used deodorant than whether
they
are alive or dead.
\brad mccormick
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