Yes, agree. A blurring of boundaries. Business is politics. And business is academics too. Soft money to politics and consulting arrangements with professors, and we have an untalked about convergence. Everyone singing from the same song book. Those who don't, don't get on TV or get on TV as entertainment whackos.
Gosh, I guess we are back to "friendly fascism" again. arthur -----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:52 PM To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GLOBAL DOWNSIDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From > > http://www.newsscan.com/newsscan/newscup.html > > WORTH THINKING ABOUT: GLOBAL DOWNSIDE [snip] > It is no surprise to anyone to > say that business has effectively become our government, and now rules > American life on all levels." [snip] Why isn't it obvious to everybody that business *is* politics? Businesspersons make decisions about the shape of shared social life, not just about their own navels, so how can what they are doing not be politics, i.e., constitutive of the life of the polis? (Obviously, via the "bourgeois" obfuscation of defining "politics" as what political parties do -- "formal democracy".) There is more to the surface than meets the eye. (--Aaron Beck) In plain sight -- the best hiding place of all. (--WIlliam Safire) \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) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
