Selling Greece to Disney Solves Europe's Woes

Tue, 04/27/2010 - 22:54

The scary thing about this new column is that the idea is actually plausible.

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Wed, 04/28/2010 - 23:06 — aliceschroeder

what it is

yes it is a comment on the warped values system and a commentary on the times in which we live in which corporations are as large as nations and more powerful economically with the ensuing implications which are enormous.

yes, it was fun to write. somebody sent me an email and said, this is a little too close to the truth! by the way, I meant no disrespect to Greece. The deadpan style of the news report that plays along with the abuse of Greece's cultural heritage is part of the social commentary. Not everybody got that part.

Wed, 04/28/2010 - 00:05 — Anonymous

Original, Hilarious, and Penetrating!!

Alice,

Wow! What an original and puckish mind you have. This posting is truly funny -- and yet sad in its own way precisely because it is not beyond belief. A lark and a lashing at once. How you manage to get to the heart of the matter by using satire, a clever blending of fact and fiction, oblique humor, not-so-oblique humor, and "theater of the absurd" is most original indeed.

Which begs the question: What is the heart of the matter? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it has something to do with that reality that we are all living and working in the midst of a totally absurd system. We work for companies that posture as to their true nature. Their true nature? deadened sensibilities on both Wall Street and in iconic companies such as Disney to anything but the profit motive. Imagine the synthetic derivatives that the takeover of Greece by Disney is going to generate, including packaging some of the Greecian islands in tranches, the nice ones will be AAA, the rocky rough ones will be sub-prime "paper."

Thanks. This one must have been a blast for you to write!
I hope your readers understand this post for what it is: a broad social commentary on the warped value systems imbedded in even the "best of breed" companies

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