[lbo-talk] Is this the new left?

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>
>What the style says to me is this: "...nothing is important except 
>identifying myself as a member of the club." (This tack by the way is 
>entirely consistent with what I observe in corporate culture, which has 
>nothing but profound contempt for content.)

You said it.  Most corporate communication is incantatory -- simply rote 
recitation of the latest biz clichés.  This promotes tribal bonding within 
the corporation.  It enables managements to hide out in the herd and duck 
responsibility for developing fresh ideas.  And it keeps corporate language 
at a
commodity level -- ensuring that staff writers remain as interchangeable as 
typewriters.

Carl