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OOps...that's "good" people, not "god" people.
posted by
majroj
on April 16, 2007 at 3:21 PM
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Good on you and them!
Edmund Burke said all god people have to do for eveil to triumph is to do nothing (in contrast to the credo of the Minutemen and the Natinal Guard, "Those serve also who only stand and wait"), so someone has to pitch in and try to stem the tide. More has to be done with mass media and I'm glad your folks are!
posted by
majroj
on April 16, 2007 at 3:19 PM
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Maj, I think that has always been a part of
human nature. "Birds of a feather flock together" but I also work every day with some truly wonderful people who are trying to have a positive effect on the world. This gives me hope.
posted by
Cynthia
on April 16, 2007 at 5:16 AM
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One woofleblower..I mean whistle blower...does not a people make.
Maybe it's just a modern candor, but instead of trying to keep the place civil, all I hear nowadays are variants of "What's in it for me?", or, better yet, "What's in it for my people?". Locally, businesses suddenly go from heterogenous to homogenous (virtually always Hindi or non-Japanese Asian). The local law enforcement agencies are having real problems recruiting adequate numbers of quality people, and the vast majority are Caucasian. Local fundamentalist and evangelical churches are erecting huge tilt-up edifices, gudawaras are multiplying...don't get me started. All the symptoms of pessimistic minds in an environment of shrinking opportunity and ever-more concentrated wealth and resources.
posted by
majroj
on April 15, 2007 at 3:01 PM
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Thanks as always Afzal...
posted by
Cynthia
on April 15, 2007 at 8:14 AM
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Maj, you seem to be contradicting yourself here.
First, we know that Wolfie's staff booed and hissed when he tried to meet with him after the debacle was made public. Employees at the World Bank have been complaining about him from day 1 it just never made the news.
Second, I am familiar with the book you mentioned but never read it.
Third, you say government is corrupt (I agree) but then you say people don't care, but isn't the fact that it was an employee whistle blower and most of the staff at the World Bank who are protesting Wolfies behavior and management a good and positive thing, which seems to contradict your conclusion.
posted by
Cynthia
on April 15, 2007 at 8:13 AM
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He was booed out of an Internat Bank employees' meeting (NPR)
I'm re (re-re-re) reading a forty year old book, "Up The Organzation" (Robert Townsend), an excellent book by a sucessful excecutive which is as informative in it's 1960's-era assumptions as it is in it's straightforward advice.
One tacit framework is that if corruption occurs, you can move on, or the government will step in. The other is that normal decent people won't stand for corruption and chicanery forever.
Now, government is corrupt, and everyday people are happy to excuse malfeasance if it promises them, or the faction they identify with, something. If you try to move on, you can find yourself blackballed as a troublemaker.
posted by
majroj
on April 15, 2007 at 7:07 AM
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Good post .
posted by
afzal50
on April 14, 2007 at 1:08 AM
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