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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes, just after justifying the US/French overthrow of the
elected government of Haiti -- and introducing a novel concept
of democracy, which has "nothing to do with the percentage of
votes received"!

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>Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:36:56 -0800 (PST)
>From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Wal-mart, the university and the
military, for examples...  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>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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