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RE: The More Things Change...

Author: steve
Date: 1999-08-31 20:44

mark wrote:
"why has corporate america defined how we live?
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Why do you let it? Form your own company (or start one with a friend) and define your own little corner of "corporate America". That's what I did, more than once. That way I can't blame my position on some faceless corporation - the corporation _is_ me (or close to it, anyway)."

excellent point, and modern technology makes it more feasible for someone to define his own little corner....but I was referring more to societal attitudes....we are so concerned with the "bottom line" and "competition" and "winning" that we allow our lives to be tracked as balance sheets and attempt to get self worth from citing competitive outcomes, even if they are non-sensical...

ask anyone on the street, musician or non musician the following question: Larry Combs beat Fred Ormand for the Chicago gig. fred now teaches at U Mich. Who is the better clarinettist??? I will bet you the preponderant answer will be Larry, because he WON!!!! Fred is NUMBER 2!!!! Who needs NUMBER 2!!!....the fact that fred and larry are both superb musicians who really can't be compared is lost to our sickness of obsessive competition and ranking...a necessary exercise if you are a mega corporation competing for profits and market share in a world market.....this attitude, when applied to real life, as idiotic as it seems, is not that damaging for battle hardened adults, who can ignore it, but it's criminal to subject children and students to it....yes, that's the way it is out there...it's not right...I wish we could change it.

best wishes, s.

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