And the Charlatans Shall Lead Them
Now this is just plain wrong.
For the past three years the Business Software Alliance and the and Motion Picture Association of America have been providing American elementary schools with “educational materials” to help teach the children about morality and copyright law.
Am I the only one who sees this as utterly preposterous!? I mean, here we have the public relations division (whose job it is to lie) of the legal arm (whose job it is to lie) of Hollywood movie studios (no comment needed) wanting to teach children about morality.
It is a delicious irony that these groups have chosen a weasel as the program’s mascot. In fact, little tikes all over America get to participate in a contest to name the vermin.
http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases/BSA-Announces-Back-to-School-Poll.cfm
The problem here is that the average elementary school pupil has a great deal more moral character than the average corporate CEO. If a kid promises to give five dollars I give him to his parents, he’ll generally do it. A guy like Chris Sontag, on the other hand, would rip my arm off to get at the money and them sue me for emotional distress.
What we really need is an outreach program in which random ten-year-olds are selected to provide moral guidance to people like Ken Lay and Michael Eisner. You know, “Lying is bad.” “If you win something by cheating you have to give it back.”ť “Big boys don’t throw temper tantrums when they don’t get what they want.”ť Stuff like that.
That would be a program worth sponsoring.
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