Who are the corporate bad guys?
If, as many think, the large, powerful corporation is the big, bad wolf, you and I are the ones who huff and puff and inflate this wolf to monstrous proportions. I’m not aware that the hundreds of thousands of employees in the wolfish corporations are very much different in their work ethic, moral values, and general purposes from those of us in most other corporate settings. We willingly merge ourselves into one seamless operation, from board member to janitor. The Apple Computers and Microsofts and Time Warners of our society continually progress, or try to progress, from challenging Big Brother to *being* Big Brother — all as a result of a “natural” evolution to which most of us yield ourselves in our own corporate and consumer contexts every day. Where, then, does the bad of the big bad wolf arise? Only from that same pattern of “innocent,” half-awake behavior that is to be found in nearly every corporation. A System can only sustain itself in the presence of a drowsy people willi