Just checked out the ChicanIndie film festival and it rocked!

  posted by Jesse P Luna @ 12:00

 
This Monday I will be starting my third week of an MBA program. The first couple of weeks have proven that I am not a very good capitalist. On most issues I tend to be on the socialist or communalist camp, or at least that is what others claim.

One of my classes is all about Values and I think I've had this course before. I had it before because it is trying to hammer in the concept that Western Civilization and capitalism is the epicenter of the universe.

Business has to be about more than just the bottom line. There is a thing called social responsibility and business are going to be held accountable as soon as the masses figure it out. They haven't figured it out because we're too busy being inundated by Friends re-runs and the over 100 film and TV awards that are constantly on. Even 9/11 hasn't totally sunk in yet. People are still shocked because they don't understand why people in some country thousands of miles away hate the US and its capitalist structure enough to attack us.

Despite all this I am still going to keep an open mind and listen to everything that is said. The more I do my homework assignments, the more I will be able to intelligently articulate my points on this BLOG and in class.

All students are encouraged to use a name plackard so that the instructor can learn our names. I think on Monday I'm going to change the name on the plackard and see if he calls on me this time. In parts of Africa, there is an aural tradition where messagers carry certain types of staffs with carvings on them. The different types of carving signify different messages. For instance, a chieftan might walk to another chieftan's village/city and he or his courtier will carry the staff that might deliver the message "we accept the terms of the agreement" or something like that. The two chieftan may talk for a few minutes on any other subject and then part company and just by the type of staff that each is carrying they can know what the bottom line of the visit was. In this example, they came to an agreement of some sort. Well on Monday I will do something similar in class where I will write how I am planning on behaving that day.

After reading Milton Friedman's essay on the onerousness of social responsibility I feel it is safe to say that tomorrow my placard will read, "TROUBLEMAKER".



  posted by Jesse P Luna @ 20:43