Four Essays on Different Topics
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1) Paul Weyrich makes reference to the idea of the "courtier" as a particular style of bureaucrat, a style that Weyrich says has been taking over and succeeding over truly qualified personnel. The idea is derived from an article in an air force publication, and the author, Dr. Chipman, describe the courtier as a self-centered person who is more interested in appearance than reality. The courtier follows all the rules for a successful appearance in the bureaucracy, whether that be a public or a private bureaucratic structure. The courtier is more intent on appearing to be effective than on getting the job done and being effective, and he is considered very effective at this deception. Chipman further indicates that the courtier is not something that is merely happening but is actually being promoted in various writings and training sessions which emphasize social skills over business skills. Weyrich says indeed that business skills no longer count and that those of us who have them are not being heeded:We are often the majority. But we are a silenced majority. The bureaucrats and courtiers have taken over (Weyrich, 1984, 189). Weyrich indeed finds that this style is becoming the norm in every type of organization and not only in what we traditionally think of as bureaucracies: More and more often, when a group is formed for some kind of project, the people in it pay attention not to what they are supposed to produce, but to each other. Each member of the group tri
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nction of the class into which we are born. In the American system, we are told that we can more easily shift from one economic stratum to another, but some classes see themselves as being handicapped to the point where they have no economic freedom and little chance of achieving any.
The order in which I place these freedoms seems to indicate to me an emphasis on the individual first and on group freedoms second. I see us as having spiritual freedom first, as needing intellectual freedom above all, and then as applying these freedoms to the development of political and economic freedom for ourselves and others as a group. I also see these freedoms as being generally interconnected, with one leading to the others and with the necessity that we see our spiritual freedom and achieve our intellectual freedom before we consider the others.
References
Paine, T. (1985). Rights of man. London: Penguin Books.
3) The most pressing global problem we face is the continuing disparity between rich and poor, whether these be classes within a country or poor countries next to rich countries on a larger scale. We can see this dynamic creating tensions between groups locally, nationally, and internationally, and new technological d
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Greenwich Devin-Adair, Dr Chipman, Thomas Paine, Third World, Latin America, Executive Action, Ridge Waco, Oliver Davies, Third Wave, William Morrow, intellectual freedom, world countries, spiritual freedom, gulf war, rich poor, third world, natural rights, economic freedom, political freedom, weyrich 1984, kauffman robinson 1991, third world countries, oliver davies 1990, 1984 190 weyrich, family family structures,
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