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Apathy rules?
Are we too dumb for democracy, or just too distracted? One member of Salon's reader community, Table Talk, weighs in this week.
[2007-09-21]

  • oldest trick in the book

    "The first is the destruction of any spirit of community in the workplace. We have been brainwashed into believing that if we view everyone at work as a competitor, we will get ahead. "

    "Because the finance man's gonna be at your house on Saturday, right? That's exactly what the company wants - to keep you on their line. They'll do anything to keep you on their line. They pit the lifers against the new boys, the old against the young, the black against the white - ANYTHING to keep us in our place."

    -"Blue Collar"

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077248/

    -- gzuckier
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    Monday, September 24, 2007 08:44 AM
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