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Tue 13 Jun, 2006 11:02 am
Question for All CEOs: Can Capitalism Survive Sans War?
"The manufacture of dynamite increased from 11 tons in 1867, the year Nobel first put it on the market, to 66,500 tons in 1897
To arm and equip mass armies required the efforts of mass industry and the munitions companies gathered under their control raw materials, mines, foundries and transportation. Markets and profits were almost limitless and they responded with fierce vigor to the incentive." Patriotism in every country in Europe was at a fever pitch.
The "War to End All Wars" began in August 1914.
The 31 year war lasted from 1914 to 1945. After that ?'wonderful age for capitalism' there was fear that peace might become infectious. Fortunately such was not the case.
Quotes from "The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the world before the War: 1890-1914".
I have a question for you. What makes you think a CEO would actually visit this site?
I suspect every one here is an apprentice CEO.
My OP is somewhat an attempt at irony I guess. This kind of post should be placed in a politics forum maybe; the problem for me is that I want a discussion of this matter that is rational rather than emotional. One can get only emotional partisanship in the other category.
It seems to me that we capitalist are too easily led into a "dogmatic slumber" by our dominant ideology. I think that we too seldom stop and do a critical analysis of our way of life. I think we do not examine our egocentric and sociocentric tendencies enough.
Emotion always wins out in the end, for we are emotional creatures. When one side refuses to listen to your logic and even acknowledge it, what else can you do but resort to emotion?
Wolf_ODonnell wrote:Emotion always wins out in the end, for we are emotional creatures. When one side refuses to listen to your logic and even acknowledge it, what else can you do but resort to emotion?
I disagre. Try to enlighten them by illuminating the tendency toward egocentric behavior. We are all faced with a strong ego that is always ready to protect us from rational behavior that might be damaging to the ego.
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