On 10/21/12 3:01 PM, David Shemano wrote: > So it is conceptually worse and more harmful when the communication is > nonpersonal, and can be safely ignored, as opposed to personally > communicated, where there is an expectation of affirmative agreement? That > can't be what you mean, so please enlighten me. > > David Shemano >
Of course it can be ignored. As I said, the employee can throw the letter in the trash can or delete an email as I do with most Goldman-Sachs alumni newsletters. The real question, which you are clumsily evading, is power. We live in a society where those who have money have huge megaphones. In plain language, this is called plutocracy. Despite all your blather about freedom, it is a question of what A.J. Liebling described in terms of "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." The Koch brothers use billions of dollars that was ultimately derived from projects in partnership with Stalin to spew their capitalist ideology in bought-off economics departments, think-tanks, and the like. I think that libertarian ideology is a crock of shit (I speak from experience, having been a member of YAF in 1960) but if people like you took your beliefs seriously, you'd fight for limitations on this kind of dollar-based propaganda. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
