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UT |
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22-Dec-2002-16:41:19 |
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Positive |
Searching the media desperately for a "positive sign" in this sad time, I actually found one this morning. Time magazine, never really known for having a set of oeuvos, when putting together its "Person Of The Year" issue, disregarded the posturing of Dubya and the Big Dick, disregarded the terror tactics of Yassar Arafat and Ariel Sharon, disregarded the toadying of Tony Blair and most of the world leaders who fell into lock-step with the US position, and chose a bunch of women whose sole claim to fame was wrestling with their consciences and becoming whistleblowers.
Instead of all the men above, whose main claim to fame is an attempt to show that their testosterone levels have not decreased with age, Time nominated Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI, and Sherron Watson of Enron, put them on the cover of their magazine, and lauded them for a quality that, in better times, would be considered normal and everyday but today, in lesser times, is considered rare and extraordinary -- ethics.
I say Bravo! One of the sicknesses of the time is that we have been trained to believe "It's out of my hands," and "There is nothing I can do about it." The symptom of this sickness is a sense of despair and powerlessness; the eventual outcome of the disease is that greed and self-interest and ego-bound stupidity continue to rape our world, in effect with our participation, because those of us in positions to say something about it said nothing.
These three women, and many like them who did not make the cover, *said something*. They refused to sit back and despair and just take it up the ass or watch others take it up the ass. They kicked a little ass of their own. Deep bow. May their photos on the cover of a national magazine inspire hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others to do the same thing.
Unc
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