I've always had trouble with "capitalism" - the word hardly appears in
Marx and I've never seen any satisfactory definitions of it as a
phenomena. I have long thought we have an entirely stupid, sick way
of doing business with each other, and that one could really only
guess this was more sick in countries without democracy and lead by
crazies and beaten with the hammer of state capitalism.
I've always had trouble with "management". Essentially, one had to
wonder how these not very bright people make themselves so valuable.
I suspect they are thieves. The Guardian is running a string of
conferences on why no one saw the current mess coming (not true - some
of us did), ending with questions about the corruption of character
underlying the mess.
I've given up teaching because I can't stand the sleaze of academe any
longer, or the pathetic cheating we have to encourage. People still
managing express concerns that honesty is long gone, but do this
quietly because they fear talking of it is career suicide. I wonder
if we have confused "capitalism" with some desire to be free of power-
freaks and somehow let it into our lives in ways we should have
resisted? Everyone is admitting in private (questionnaires etc.) that
they are routinely lying - I actually find some very confused people
in my practical examinations of organisations - and would like to
establish why I feel this is worse now than ever before in my life. I
got used to lies as a cop, but this current stuff is something else,
more like a disease.
It's pretty obvious that Enron was the key model underlying
"capitalist" activity. In a similar sense Baby P is probably not an
exception but the rule. Lying connects activity in public and private
sectors, along with brazen denials that anything is going wrong. Our
bwankers have clearly been sitting on top of one hell of a barrel of
stealing that dwarfs Enron.
I haven't heard the world stop as all this money drops from sight
under the magician's cape. I wonder if we could start again without
these parasites?
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