[lbo-talk] Cultural Change?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>
>>Not much.  On the first point, for instance, greater participation of 
>>women in executive ranks has simply proved that women can be the same 
>>mega-assholes in business that men can be.  Ditto women in the military; 
>>it was very impressive seeing that at least one female US soldier joined 
>>in sexually taunting those Iraqi POWs.
>
>Sorry to descend into the old standpoint business, but that's easy for a 
>straight white guy to say, isn't it? Women aren't just asshole CEOs - in 
>fact few of them are - but they are a lot less dependent on men. There's a 
>large black middle class that didn't exist a couple of generations ago. In 
>many place, two men can walk down the street holding hands without getting 
>the crap beaten out of them. People fought hard for this - don't disparage 
>their accomplishments.

I would question these accomplishments' ultimate value.  So much of this 
progress seems no more than success at getting a more comfy deck chair on a 
sinking ship.  The US is in deep crisis as a society and poses an immense, 
growing menace to the rest of the world.   In this environment it will avail 
Americans little if they persist only in the complacent aim of trying to 
improve the lot of their own respective identity group.

Carl

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