[Peace-discuss] Wal-mart, the university and the military, for examples...

[David Green]

This provides an alternative perspective to that
expressed by Mr. Wilkerson this morning on Democracy
Now, right at the end of the long interview, regarding
those who persist working in an organization which
they know is doing bad things.

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [This is rather neatly put, I think, and seems
> similar to what
> J.-P. Sartre called "bourgeois bad faith."  In "The
> Republic
> of Silence" (1944) he wrote, "We were never more
> free than
> under the German occupation."  --CGE]
> 
> AMORALITY: A quality admired and rewarded in modern
> organizations, where it is referred to through
> metaphors such
> as professionalism and efficiency . . . Immorality
> is doing
> wrong of our own volition.  Amorality is doing it
> because a
> structure or an organization expects us to do it.
> Amorality is
> thus worse than immorality because it involves
> denying our
> responsibility and therefore our existence as
> anything more
> than an animal. --John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's
> Companion."
> 
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