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Is it synchronicity or an example of the phenomemon that you see what you're looking for? I've been harping lately on the broad lack of courage in the places one might expect it: coporate boardrooms, policy offices, courts, presidential suites and so on. My whinging has been supported by a book I'm reading right now entitled, The Timid Corporation. It's an interesting book with an interesting premise/thesis, although I'm not sure I agree with the route it takes to get to its point nor with the almost corporatist apologist paean undercurrent in the writing. Be that as it may, the book is some 225 pages worth of expose about the increased timidity and lack of courage, and, as the author puts it, "defensiveness" that prevails.
So what? I'm seeing this "meme," as it were, appear regularly in various places. It's getting to be almost as prevalent in commentary is is "the long tail." Here, for example, is a story from the Globe & Mail that addresses the thoughts of a former chief economist at the IMF viz. the pathology of fear in the economy: World economic crisis looming. A snip:
The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Kenneth Rogoff, worries that we may be living with a pathology of fear" which is holding down long-term interest rates and covering up a number of serious economic problems in the global economy.Back to the original question: is this theme more prevalent or am I just seeing what interests me? Posted by Grayson at July 8, 2005 07:39 AM