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To: Nick Danger
What malice do you bear against me, what is its source?
265 posted on 07/16/2003 10:03:07 AM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw
What malice do you bear against me

I have no malice against you. I have malice against bullsh*t, particularly bullsh*t that would lead people to perceive solutions in places where there aren't any.

"The corporations this, the corporations that, they're all crooks, and the ones who aren't are incomptent or fools" is of no utility. It tells us nothing that is generally true. We cannot use it to formulate any plan to fix anything. Collectively, "the corporations" are how we organize ourselves into groups to engage in economic activity. If all of them are full of crooks and fools, then we too are crooks and fools, and there is no solution anywhere because anywhere we turn there will just be another busload of crooks and fools.

So I hear this, and I get out my buzzsaw. Partly because it is a nihilistic rant, which I find annoying, but even more because none of this describes the thousands of people I have worked with in dozens of corporations over the years. Most people are good. Of course there's a crook here and an idiot there, but we did not become an economic superpower by assembling collections of fools and crooks to run everything. It pisses me off to hear people say that. Because it isn't true, and it can't be true or we wouldn't be where we are.

You just happened be the latest person to come by with a statue of the Virgin Mary that you had carefully made of dung. Trust me, I go after every one of those things I see, and I try my best to leave them in little shards along the roadside. Sometimes I break my chain on the damned things. But either way, it has nothing to do with you.

266 posted on 07/16/2003 10:33:22 AM PDT by Nick Danger (The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
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