On Jan 13 you wrote - >It is in my opinion very sad how much of the >best of "our" cultural heritage most of "us", including >many PhD holders from prestige universities, do not >even know that they know nothing about.
Right on Brad! Some of the greatest ignorance i have encountered (outside of my own) emanates from the incumbents of sinecured 'teaching' positions in Economics and 'Management' faculties at 'prestigous' universities. The real scarey thing is that some of ' the best and brightest' from such places stay on to ' teach' the next generation, resulting in institutionalised ignorance. The rest go out into the world to be 'snapped up' by TNCs, highly conservative Private 'Institutes'/Think Tanks, bureaucratic Government institutions such as Treasury and the likes of The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc or the 'Big Five' accounting and now 'management consulting' firms who provide 'services' to them. The results or ' outcomes' of the insidious, planned de-funding of public universities and their enforced 'privatisation' by TNCs and the financial accounting behemoths are today everywhere to be seen - an incredibly wasteful, unjust/anti-social and ecologically unsustainable system of globalised production, transportation and 'marketing' of a mind-numbing array of commodities and 'services' - which are increasingly unaffordable/unattainable by vast numbers of (potential only) 'consumers' around the globe. Here is another ' outcome' ... >Due diligence should also be given to the recent scandal concerning Enron >and Arthur Anderson & Company. Anderson Consulting, which has been renamed >Accenture, is no longer part of Arthur Anderson & Company following a bitter >internal struggle. That struggle was about money -- $14 billion -- not >ethics. These supposed "auditors" give a whole new dimension to the concept >of "welfare fraud". Is the Liberal position that a little bit of retail >fraud is bad, but a whole lot of wholesale fraud is good? > >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/business/yourmoney/13ANDE.html?todaysheadl >ines >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/business/13SELL.html?todaysheadlines The 'CEOs' and their 'Boards' of contemporary universities have a great deal to answer for! john foster Victoria, Australia
