Spontaneous Feeling

In her book, entitled "Bait and Switch," Barbara Ehrenreich wrote, "Picking up after a firing and regrouping in a mode of passionate engagement, and doing so time after time-this is a job for a professional actor or for a person who has lost the capacity for spontaneous feeling." Italics are mine.

So, I was just wondering, is that the issue with so many in the corporate world? Lay, Skilling, Scrushy, and Frist come to mind. These people seem devoid of real emotion of any kind. Their loyalty is to the dollar and nothing more. They seem to believe that they are entitled to do as they wish, as long as it makes money...for themselves. As Mr. Lay sat before the House Committee looking into the Enron scandal, his face was devoid of any emotion. Rather like the oil exec's who sat before another House Committee stone faced and pronounced that they had not been involved with VP Cheney in writing the Energy Bill.

It will be interesting to see how these folks react during their upcoming trials. Those who are most accomplished will of course have a religious experience and move from prison to talk radio. But the others, I wonder if they will somewhere down the road have an epiphany, and actually change their thinking. Or, continue down the path they know and re-create the chaos and mayhem they foisted on so many.