First, to Ray:
(1) Have *I* put my foot in my mouth again? (which, apparently,
contrary to what the British are up to these days, is a curable
disease...)
(2) I believe you are generating your email with some new
Bill Gates XML software (another MicroSoft "killer app":
kills all competition). If yes, can you (and all others who are
either wittingly or unwittingly using this software) kindly
go back to sending your email in "plain" ASCII? catholic, si!
Catholic, no!
--
Ray Harrell wrote (with some impediment from Bill Gates...):
[snip]
> I don't understand why a Future of Work list runs so quickly away from the issues of
>quality and mastery.
I hope I am not guilty of this. If I am, it's lack of rhetorical
skill and/or effort, not "good will"!
Intellectual Capital is
> raping the old views regularly. From Agile manufacturing to Handy's Stakeholders,
>the old views just don't suffice and it doesn't
> matter what 19th century philosopher we quote. Economics acts as if it had Alien
>Hand Syndrome with a sliced corpus collosum
> and both sides doing war while we all starve.
[snip]
Amen. They don't call it the invisible hand for nothing....
> Here's another story. Verdi had a gardener for many years who one day picked a
>pear from his tree and took a bite of it. Verdi
> saw and instantly fired him. He said, <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
=============> Note the Bill Gates contribution above!
>
>
>
> "If he had asked I would have given him anything he wanted but he
>stole it and I won't allow anyone to steal from
> me."
[snip]
I've heard this story before, and it troubles me.
*Why* did the
gardener steal the pear? My guess is that Verdi must not have
successfully sold the gardener on the fact that he (Verdi) was
truly a very kindly person, who *really meant* that the only thing which
was not acceptable was lying (this would make Verdi something
probably entirely outside the gardener's ability to
imagine, since most of the world is hypocritical).
Job, "the story of
foolish curiosity" in Don Quixote, and a whole bunch other
examples make me more than leery of "testing persons", and this story
sounds to me like it goes in the same "congruence class" as
O'Henry's wasteful story "The Gift of the Magi".
> When contemplating "bottom line" culture one should look up the meaning of insanity
>in the psychological profession. The base
> meaning is from the latin meaning "whole". Today we hear that Art is not a
>necessity for culture.
Art in these postmodern times has [for the most part, though
ovbiously not in its entirety!] dissociated itself from humanistic purpose.
It's Dada without any of Dada's ethical force?
[snip]
> The issue is simple. What is truly private? and what is truly owned?
[snip]
Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" yet again.
[snip]
> My consciousness may be stupid and "swayable" but my body isn't. IT knows the
>difference and
> would rather die than accept what doesn't work. Or as my French doctor says to me:
> "Merd in, Merd out! You would treat your
> automobile better!"
>
> Ray Evans Harrell
My guess is that unless you are a lot healthier than myself, you underestimate
your body.
--
I was talking to some real "Brits" yesterday, and I asked them what the British
think of George W. They said that at first they thought he was a joke, but
now they are getting worried about the harm he may do. They mentioned
him ruling: "The United States of Pollution".
--
"Yours in discourse..." (which is logically universal, and may
include even Neanderthals is any remain among us, which they may,
perhaps for one place in my own "genealogy"...)....
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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