“In restless dream I walk alone…” the 60’s famous Simon & Garfunkel lyrics still reverberates today.
A generation which sought to heighten social awareness, and pushed for change away from “a neon god they made”..
I am not sure how much of an impact the 60’s managed to work itself into institutional reform, but at the individual level, we see changes , from Lyndon Johnson’s hippie hair to Jay Leno’s motor cycle, from mainframe to open source.
Change doesn’t come easy. It takes finesse and know-how (the art of woo). It’s not what you know, but who you know.
Now researchers found that human prefer to listen more from their right ears than their left.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090624/sc_livescience/mostpeoplepreferrightearforlistening
Being in the field of persuasion, I naturally am interested in such study.
(I keep seeing congressional aides whisper into their boss’ ear during C-PAN coverage).
Nixon was listening to Henry Kissinger and Billy Graham. Bush to Cheney. I am not sure which ear through which they listen to their counsels. But from recent release of the White House tapes, we now know how our leaders mulled over their decisions, and the company they kept ( “I will have his head cut off if I need to” – to make the Paris Peace Accord happen).
And today, the press is having a field day with S. C. Governor’s disappearance .
Let him who has no sin cast the first stone. We forgive trillion dollars of debt to banking “institutions”, but we expect perfection from “individuals”. No wonder, people always are in a hurry to “institutionalize” or “incorporate”.
In the age of YouTube, the visual impact is unpredictable: the news media interns went into the archive, and pulled news footage of past public confessions: Bill Clinton, Spitzer, Edward etc…to gain points (cheap shots!).
Man, what’s going on here. I can’t wait until tomorrow to see the Madoff’s sentencing.
He knew what was coming, yet didn’t mind serving as the fall guy. And fall he will, perhaps even free-falling.
I don’t judge, let myself be judged. But again, we bail out institutions, not individuals. If you plead, make sure it’s the judge’s RIGHT ear, not his/her left. Or else, like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, you will “in restless dream I walk alone”….
Thang Nguyen 555 