Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:37:15 -0400
From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: A Nation of Spectators?
To: psn@csf.colorado.edu, psn-cafe@csf.colorado.edu
At 10:37 AM 6/30/98 -0600, you quoteth:
>Subject: A Nation of Spectators?
>
>The most powerful organization in our society is the corporation.
>Corporations have become more powerful than governments, or religious
>institutions, or labor unions. 
>

Well, each time schmucks like Bennett say something publicly, I smell a rat.

Methinks it is yet another example of chasing platonic shadows on the wall,
a diversion if you will.  The corporations themselves are not a problem.
In fact, corporation _can_ be a very efficient and desirable way of
organizing the economy and solving social problems.  In fact, such a
conclusion is quite convincingly proposed by John Kenneth Galbraith (_The
New Industrial State_).

The problem is not with the corporation per se, but with the current "rules
of engagement" so to speak and the people who control the corporations.  A
set of rules that would substantially curtail the power of the Wall Street
and executive privileges, and increase democratic controls and government
oversight will transform corporations into forces of progress.

BTW, it is corporate giants like Apple Computer who institute progressive
policies like domestic partnership or prevention of sexual harassment -
oftentimes over rabid 'popular' opposition (the Christian Coalition and
their bed fellows).

PS.  I apologize everyone for not answering the responses to my last week
posting, but I was out of town for several days.

Best regards,

Wojtek Sokolowski