Why does our society act so two-faced?

[Deja Q]

Sorry, but if I'm laid off I'm going to whistle-blow big time.

In a society that preaches honesty and doing the right thing, it's amazing how many people are compelled NOT to blow the whistle at wrongdoing. Yet alone everything else our duplicitous corrupt society is capable of doing. Even with unions and management who have their own unions, they compel employees NOT to go on strike or else they have to work in misery until they quit.

Our society is wrong, prove to me it is not.

[cosmicdot]

1. In a society that preaches honesty and doing the right thing

((if I may borrow your sentence, but shorten it))

...we have way too much wrongdoing!

... and, those who do it tend to get promoted to the top and, once there, then, perpetuate their incompetence and evildoings by surrounding themselves with good ol'boys in sort of a protective cell clique ...

... and, we all lose as a result ... because we don't get our 'best' ... we don't get true leaders ... principles and integrity become words made for motivational posters ...

yes, there is something definitely wrong.

[Deja Q]

3. Fundamentally wrong

We need to take back the media but make it as entertaining as it is informative. Yet without making it preachy.

A modern "All in the Family" would be just the tip of the iceberg.

[bleedingheart]

2. I hear ya...

I like when they make us take ethics tests while everyone knows that unethical activity is going on...but speak of it and you lose your job.

[Nevernose]

4. "Nickel and Dimed"

There's a great discussion of pre-employment ethics tests in "Nickle and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America." That vignette, and really the whole book, is must-read material for any true progressive.

It's also very, very funny, by the way, kind of like an intellectual version of Mike Moore.