Neocon.....
>>Well, Fred, the service model has always been part of capitalism. Remember the concept of consumer sovereignty, which is imagined to be automatic in a situation of perfect knowledge and uncoerced choices? Remember the maxims "Honesty is the best policy" and "The customer is always right" and "Service with a smile", which stipulate that one must retain consumer trust, cater to their desires, and be happy to do so, in order to be successful?>>
I believe the even the definition of "capitalism" is going to be transformed into the non-definitional arena of risk.
What is capital? Capital can have whatever "value" we place on it: human capital, intellectual capital, social capital, etc.
I don't want to argue definitions so much as I want to challenge the fixed/limited boundaries they create when we lock ourselves into relative positions of NO which tend to remove us from GO - ie. risk.
A good friend who's got her PhD in psychology brought up an interesting example of the problem she feels that others have in understanding what I'm trying to share. I won't go into it in detail here, but suffice it to say that if people are interpreting me from a horizontal/literal perspecitive there's a conflict. For I am speaking from a vertical/spiritual perspective. And I don't want to get into this judgmental "I know vs. you don't know" crap, for I don't believe in it. I believe and have faith that we ALL know these things. That we are ALL connected to the same energy, light and love, etc. Nobody is going to convince me otherwise.
NO tries to delude us all into thinking we are all different, separated, etc. If the risks we take to "let GO" drive our lives are interpreted in the horizontal/literal dimension this path looks wacky/crazy. But if you look at it from a vertical/spiritual perspective it makes more sense. Not from a "me/you/I" perspective, but from a "WE" perspective.
>>I am not sure what this has to do with risk, or giving up all power, control, and flexibility to others, except to say that one recognizes that customer satisfaction is the touchstone. Francis Bacon put forth the maxim,"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed", to express the paradoxical nature of science/technology at its modern inception: only those who adhere to the laws of nature can employ those laws to their advantage. In the same way, one does not give up all power and control, but by conceding that one wins position by providing a desirable product or service, one respects consumer sovereignty in order to achieve power in the marketplace. There is no especial risk involved, any more than that ordinarily undertaken in making an investment. In fact,since customer satisfaction is the key to success, one can say that using that as one's guide, risk is minimized..........>>
I believe we must give up all power and control in the timelessness of the present moment to really live our lives with energy, light and love.
This "letting GO" requirement is the risk I'm speaking of.
Peace.
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