Selma wrote:
> Ray, I don't remember if I have ever mentioned the philosopher, Elijah
> Jordan to you; his books are out of print now but I have all of them
>
> One if his books is Business Br Damned! I think you would find it
> interesting but I'm not sure you would be able to find it anywhere.
I turned up at least one quote from the book on line:
In business intelligent and serious interpretation of facts is never
called for; intelligence is not involved at all. Only the individual
with the strongest motives, motives least checked by moral
sensitiveness, can survive. The psychological make-up of the business
"mind" is therefore a mere collection of disconnected motives,
impulses entirely without conscious direction or moral unity of
purpose, hence without intelligence. A "decision" of such a mind is
merely the triumph of one motive, the worst, over the rest,
particularly over any impulse to sympathetic appreciation of another's
stake in the situation. The latter impulse is "inefficiency."
on a somewhat strange blog.
http://electromagneticfrontier.blogspot.com/2010/10/visions-of-order-chapter-2_17.html
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
/V\
[email protected] /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
