>As Gregory Bateson put it in "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" (1972), >a business corporation is not a group of people, but a group of parts of >people; i.e. Economic Man #1, Economic Man #2, Economic Man #3, etc. > >Doug Woodard >St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Thankyou Doug, indeed so. A collective is not necessarily just the sum of its parts and may not even be like them at all. http://journeytoforever.org/fyi_previous5.html#creed Thanks too for the reminder of Gregory Bateson, one doesn't hear enough about him these days, IMHO. I lost that book some years ago, damn. Best Keith >On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Keith Addison wrote: > > > You can't change a corporation's mindset by education, nor by any > > means other than hurting their bottom line. The humans who work for > > them notwithstanding, corporations are not human and do not have > > human drives or instincts or inhibitions, their only drive is > > profit-growth. Their PR budgets help people to think they're > > oh-so-human, but the money's only spent because it helps the bottom > > line. You can educate them like Pavlov educated his dogs, via shocks > > that hurt their bottom line and rewards that improve it. Unlike dogs, > > it doesn't work without the shocks. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
