Brad:
I have not followed this advice myself, but
I do believe that urban persons (us Laputans...) should, at
least once in their life be made to do things like kill and skin the
animal they eat for dinner, etc. Experientia docet
(hopefully!).
A few years ago, when still in high school,
731. N. S. Aleinikova and I
The city in which I was born and brought up was raided 41 times by the
Germans between 1940 and 1942, but the greatest of all these raids was
one called Operation Moonlight Sonata which occurred during the
night of 14 November 1940 and involved 500 German bomber
It took a long time to create a middle class in No. America, looks like it
will take less time for it to be swept away.
arthur
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Here is a thoughtful essay by Harry Smith:
This is from Harry Smith at
cbsnews.com:
Forget The Social Contract
NEW YORK, May 11, 2005
This column was written by
CBS News Early Show anchor Harry Smith.
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I guess I'm old enough to
remember the social contract. They
Arthur, I agree with your concern. I just wrote this to the
Organization Development (OD) list. I am trying to galvanize a more active
stance by ODs practitioners because they can have significant impact on
the policies and practices or organizations.
Yes, as Fred points out, the UAL
I think that there are three issues:
1. Executive immorality: many are taught in Business School
that the bottom line is making money (for themselves).
2. Bankruptcy and other commercial law: corporations are
treated as individuals, and so benefit from the clean-slate opportunity
So, if we look at #3 (Unrealistic worker expectations:)
then, we see that as the global economy kicks in, we in the
western nations (first-world economies) must lower our sights, lower our
expectations, lower our standards of living to become second and
third-world nation workers governed
Greetings, all
I do not view myself as idealistic; I view myself as
intensely pragmatic. The species-perspective is the only one that is, IMO,
truly pragmatic. All else is short term gains and the infliction of suffering.
My neighbors have been suffering for centuries, as they do
Lawrence deBivort wrote:
Only western workers will lament these impacts, and they are but a fraction
of the world's population. For the rest, the equalization is positive.
...
My 'my' is usually that of the species, Homo sapiens. Globalization seems
a lot less threatening when viewed from this
More details
about that investor summit this week. Here is the original posting. Links are live. KwC
Investors worth $3.22 Trillion urge action at
Climate Risk Summit http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2005/2005-05-10-04.asp
Mouths Where Their Money Is
By Emily Gertz,
That's all very admirable, Lawry, but surely
pragmatism requires that one tackles the problems that one can and helps those
within one's reach. That reach may be helping people locally or it may at
times be doing something to help peoplefar away, but one has to make
choices and recognize
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