More on Corporate Behavior
In my last blog, on corporate behavior, I made a coupld of remarks that could stand a little clarification if not revision.
First, I asserted that corporate behavior is most in need of watching and checking today, in contrast to the behavior of government and the church. Actually, there could hardly be a bigger offender than the government in the present administration. But we'll hope this is a matter of temporary politial insanity rather than habitual misbehavior or structural breakdown. The coming election of November 7, 2006 will tell us a lot about whether we still have a democracy, in the wake of Congressional corruption, the Patriot Act, presidential signing statements, and the like. And, now that I think of it, even the church shows some signs of departure from its usually more appropriate behavior in a democracy. Again, one hopes, a matter of temporary misbehavior.
My other comment is about myths, aka BIG LIES, gaining acceptance in recent times. The one I called "voter fraud" might send a different message than I intended. I was thinking of the phenomenon of illegals voting and the purported necessity, therefore, of requiring voter identification in the form of photos and evidences of citizenship. This kind of voter fraud is virtually non-existent, but stamping it out, of course, would tend to wreak hardship on lower-income and more disadvantaged persons (read Democrats). So let's pass laws to stop it, right? More recently, however, the practice of hacking election machines has been in the news--and here really is a major problem. In case this might be thought of as voter fraud, the caption is misleading. I guess we'll just have to see how the language describing these practices develops.
First, I asserted that corporate behavior is most in need of watching and checking today, in contrast to the behavior of government and the church. Actually, there could hardly be a bigger offender than the government in the present administration. But we'll hope this is a matter of temporary politial insanity rather than habitual misbehavior or structural breakdown. The coming election of November 7, 2006 will tell us a lot about whether we still have a democracy, in the wake of Congressional corruption, the Patriot Act, presidential signing statements, and the like. And, now that I think of it, even the church shows some signs of departure from its usually more appropriate behavior in a democracy. Again, one hopes, a matter of temporary misbehavior.
My other comment is about myths, aka BIG LIES, gaining acceptance in recent times. The one I called "voter fraud" might send a different message than I intended. I was thinking of the phenomenon of illegals voting and the purported necessity, therefore, of requiring voter identification in the form of photos and evidences of citizenship. This kind of voter fraud is virtually non-existent, but stamping it out, of course, would tend to wreak hardship on lower-income and more disadvantaged persons (read Democrats). So let's pass laws to stop it, right? More recently, however, the practice of hacking election machines has been in the news--and here really is a major problem. In case this might be thought of as voter fraud, the caption is misleading. I guess we'll just have to see how the language describing these practices develops.
posted by Gladys at 3:29 PM
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