JAMES_H_CARRINGTON@HP-Chelmsford-om1.om.hp.com wrote:
> Ray Harrel Wrote:
>
> >Today it has tied its philosophy (economics) to the very roots of
> >America's most cherished ideal. The ideal of freedom. I happen to
> >think that this is now nonsense, but I do understand the historic
> >roots of the belief.
>
> could you expound on "nonsense"?
>
IMHO business more resembles the old European military, church and
government structures then it does the non-conformist outsiders that
created modern corporations. Where business did develop its talent
through "on the job" experience, today's business is too complex.
"Intellectual Capital" is the key word and that basically means educated
and creative. Freedom is creative education and developed skills.
Slavery is intellectual and creative limitation.
Today the place where the "non-conformists" go to get that free training
while still working and being paid for it, is the military. I even spent
six years there (post college) where I also trained for my current
entrepreneurial work.
So my point is that this is much more mixed between various elements of
the economy and culture than it was before. The rest of the society is as
"on the edge" as any private business in today's world. In fact most arts
companies are more creative, use their money better and stimulate more
community investment than private businesses of comparable size.
Like private business, the larger arts organizations tend to be more
authoritarian driven and less efficient. However, in spite of the
governments huge size, neither it or the clergy, the military, the arts,
education etc. are any longer the sole province of the wealthy(except for
elected amateurs), the connected or the elite cultured. I would venture
that there is more wealthy networking and thus closed structures in modern
corporations than in these other societal structures.
There seems to have been a flip/flop here and business doesn't quite know
how to deal with their new authority and rigidity. Mostly it seems to be
dealing with it in the same way that the governments did 150 years ago.
By pushing numbers and creating problems with numbers. Like the self
created computer 2,000 glitch. Why not create something of aesthetic
beauty instead? No freedom there, just locked in place.
I admit to oversimplification and apologize. This is not a paper, but
like I said in the earlier post, ascribing the greatest freedom ideals to
today's private business is nonsense IMHO.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Chamber Opera of New York
mcore@idt.net
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