Our work takes on narcissistic qualities when it does not server well as a reflection of self. When that inherent reflection is lost, we become more concerned instead with how our work reflects on our reputations. We seek to repair our painful narcissism in the glow of achievement, and so we become distracted from the soul of the work for its sake. We are tempted to find satisfaction in secondary rewards, such as much, prestige, and the trappings of success. It is obvious that climbing the ladder of success can easily lead to a loss of a soul and lead people to commit criminal acts to feel powerful and obtain more assets. Burglary and robbery commonly accompany rape. Among our sample, 39 percent of rapists had also been convicted of one or the other of these crimes committed in connection with rape. In some cases, the original intent was rape and robbery was an after-thought. However, a number of the men indicated that the reverse was true in their situation. That is, the decision to rape was made subsequent to their original intent which was burglary or robbery. This was the case with a young offender who stated that he originally intended only to rob the store in which the victim happened to be working. He explained that when he found the victim alone, “I decided to rape her to prove I had guts. She was just there. It would have been anybody.” Similarly, another offender indicated that he initially broke into his victim’s home to burglarize it. When he discovered the victim asleep, he decided to seize the opportunity “to satisfy an urge to go to bed with a white woman, to see if it was different.” #RandolphHarris 1 of 22

Indeed, a number of men indicated that the decision to rape had been made after they realized they were in control of the situation. The attitude of these men toward rape was similar to their attitude toward burglary and robbery. Quite simply, if the situation is right, “why not.” From the perspective of these rapists, rape was just another part of the crime—an added bonus. In an effort to change public attitudes that are damaging to the victims of rape and to reform laws seemingly premised on the assumption that women both ask for and enjoy rape, many writers emphasized the violent and aggressive character in the crime. The data clearly indicate that from the rapists’ point of view rape is in part sexually motivated. Indeed, it is the sexual aspect of rape that distinguishes it from other forms of assault. The psychodynamic function of sex in rape is that rapists’ aggressive needs are expressed through sexuality. In other words, rape is a means to an end. We argue, however, that rapists view the act as an end in itself and that sexual access most obviously demonstrates the link between sex and rape. Rape as a means of sexual access also shows the deliberate nature of this crime. When a woman is unwilling or seems unavailable for sex, the rapist can seize what is not volunteered. In discussing his decision to rape, one man made this clear. “All the guys wanted to f*ck her…a real fox, beautiful shape. She was a beautiful woman and I wanted to see what she had.” #RandolphHarris 2 of 22

The attitude that sex is a male entitlement suggests that when a woman says “no,” rape is suitable method of conquering the “offending” object. If, for example, a woman is picked up at a party or in a bar or whole hitchhiking (behavior which a number of the rapists saw as a signal of sexual availability), and the women later resists sexual advances, rape is presumed to be justified. The same justification operates in what is popularly called “date rape.” The belief that sex was their just compensation compelled a number of rapists to insist they had not raped. Such was the case of an offender who raped and seriously beat his victim when, on their second date, she refused his sexual advances. “I think I was really pissed off at her because it did not go as planned. I could have been with someone else. She led me on but wouldn’t deliver…I have a male ego that must be fed.” The purpose of such rapes was conquest, to seize what was not offered. Despite the cultural belief that young women are the most sexually desirable, several rapes involved the deliberate choice of a victim relatively older than the assailant. Since the rapists were themselves rather young (26 to 30 years of age on the average), they were expressing a preference for sexually experienced, rather than elderly, women. Men who choose victims older than themselves often said they did so because they believed that sexually experienced women were more desirable partners. They raped because they also believed that these women would not be sexually attracted to them. #RandolphHarris 3 of 22

Finally, sexual access emerged as a factor in the accounts of men who consciously chose to rape women of another race. The majority of rapes in the United States of America today are intraracial. However, for the past 50 years, interracial rape has become a trend. Indeed, we may be experiencing a historical anomaly. The current structure of interracial rape, however, reflects contemporary racism and race relations in several ways. Segregation and other factors continue to militate against interracial coupling. Thus, the desire for sexual access to higher status, unavailable women, an important function in interracial rape, does not motivate men to rape women of another race. Equally important, demographic and geographic barriers interact to lower the incidence of interracial rape. Segregation as well as the poverty expected in some neighborhoods undoubtedly discourages many people who are not from those areas from choosing such areas as a target for house-breaking or robbery. Thus, the number of rapes that would occur in conjunction with these crimes is reduced. Reflecting in part the standards of sexual desirability set by the dominant society, a number of rapists indicated they had been curious about women in the dominant society. Blocked by racial barriers from legitimate sexual relations white these women of another race, they raped to gain access to them. They described raping women from the dominant race as “the ultimate experience” and “high status among my friends. It gave me a feeling of status, power, macho.” For another man, raping a woman of the dominate culture has a special appeal to some because it violates a “known taboo,” making it more dangerous and, thus more exciting, to him than raping a woman of his own race. #RandolphHarris 4 of 22

The idea that rape is an impersonal rather than an intimate or mutual experience appealed to a number of rapists, some of whom suggested it was their preferred form of sex. The fact that rape allowed them to control rather than care encouraged some to act on this preference. For example, one man explained, “Rape gave me the power to do what I wanted to do without feeling I had to please a partner or respond to a partner. I felt in control, dominant. Rape was the ability to have sex without caring about the woman’s response. I was totally dominant. Another rapist commented: “Seeing them laying there helpless gave me the confidence that I could do it…With rape, I felt totally in charge. I’m bashful, timid. When a woman wanted to give in normal sex, I was intimidated. In the rapes, I was totally in command, she totally submissive.” Perhaps we should note here that the appeal of impersonal sex is not limited to convicted rapists. The amount of male sexual activity that occurs in homosexual meeting places as well as the widespread use of prostitutes suggests that avoidance of intimacy appeals to a large segment of the male population. Through rape men can experience power and avoid the emotions related to intimacy and tenderness. Further, the popularity of violent pornography suggests that a wide variety of men in this culture have learned to be aroused by sex fused with violence. #RandolphHarris 5 of 22

Consistent with this observation, recent experimental research demonstrates that some men are aroused by images that depict women as orgasmic under conditions of violence and pain. They found that for many female students, arousal was high when the victim experienced an orgasm and no pain, whereas male students were highly aroused where the victim experience an orgasm and pain. On the basis of the results, it is suggested that forcing a woman to climax despite her pain and abhorrence of the assailant makes the rapist feel powerful, he has gained control over the only source of power historically associated with women, their bodies. In the final analysis, dominance was the objective of most rapists. Life leaves many people suffering the inevitable. It is a thing one cannot escape from unless one hides from life. Some wonder that if when others see human sorrow, should that make them want to take the easy road? Many says that they ask nothing better than to be allowed the very high privilege of living with they have passion for, and they only ask that they may suffer for the things that are high and brave and lovely and that they may not be weak when suffering comes. For the end success, failure, ruin or achievement matters to some so little. The stuff of life that matters to many successful people is experience. All that some people ask is that they may be permitted to love much, to serve to the utmost limit of their capacity and to keep faith with that high vision which they call God. Most important to many people is that they never stop caring. #RandolphHarris 6 of 22

Often times, it takes a loved one being on their death bed, dying for others to confess their love for the individual, to embrace that person; and yet, deep inside they have wanted to for so many years but always felt restrained by the mores of our country. It is at this point where people are most freely able to express that all of their experiences together can never be taken away and how their meanings are only between those two individuals. In the end, waiting so long leaves so many people weeping unashamed because that is what they feel. There can be an effect on the conscience of the teachings by evil spirits. How teaching spirits teach, we find described by Paul, for he says they speak lies in hypocrisy, that is, speak lies as if they were truth. And the effect of their working is said to “cauterize” the conscience; id est, if a man accepts the teachings of evil spirits as divine, because they come to one “supernaturally,” and one obeys and follows those teachings, conscience is unused, so that it practically becomes dulled and passive—or seared. And a man will do things under the influence of supernatural “revelation” which an actively awakened conscience would keenly rebuke and condemn. Such people “give heed” to these spirits, by listening to them, and then by obeying them; for they are deceived by accepting wrong thoughts about God’s presence, and about divine love, and unknowingly give themselves up to the power of lying spirits. Working in the line of “teaching,” deceiving spirits will insert their lies spoken in hypocrisy into “holiness” teaching and deceive believers about sin, themselves, and all other truths connected with the spiritual life. #RandolphHarris 7 of 22

Scripture is generally used as the basis of these teachings and is skillfully woven together like a spider’s web, so that the listeners are caught in the snare. Single text are wrenched from their context, and from their place in the perspective of truth; sentences are taken from their correlative sentences, or texts are aptly picked out from over a wide field and so netted together as to appear to give a full revelation of the mind of God—but the intervening passages, giving historical setting, actions and circumstances connected with the speaking of words, and other elements which give light on each separate text, are skillfully dropped out. A wide net is thus made for the unwary or the untaught in the principles of Scripture exegesis, and many a life is sidetracked and troubled by this false use of the Word of God. Because the experience of most professing Christians in regard to the devil is limited to knowing him as a tempter, or as an accuser, they have no concept of the depths of his wickedness and of the wickedness of evil spirits, and are under the impression that they will not quite Scripture, whereas they will quote the whole Book if the can but deceive one soul. Think very seriously before you decide to work on yourself with the idea of changing yourself, id est, to work with the definite aim of becoming conscious and of developing connection with higher centers. This work admits of no compromise and it requires a great amount of self-discipline and readiness to obey all rules and particularly, direct instructions. #RandolphHarris 8 of 22

Think very seriously: are you really ready and willing to obey, and do you fully understand the necessity for it? There is no going back. If you agree and then go back, you will lose everything that you have acquired up to that time, and you will lose more really, because all that you acquired will turn into something wrong in you. There is no remedy against this. Understanding of the necessity for obeying rules and direct instructions must be based on the realization of your mechanicalness and your helplessness. If this realization is not strong enough, you had better wait and occupy yourself with ordinary work; study of the system, work in groups, et cetera. If you do this work sincerely and remember all the rules, it will bring you to the realization of your state and your needs. However, you must not delay too long. If you want to come to real work you must hurry. You must understand that the opportunity that exists today may not come your way again. You may lose all your chances by hesitating and waiting too long. If you decide to work and accept all that comes in the work, you must learn to think quickly. If you are offered a task you must answer at one that you accept it. If you hesitate or take time to answer, the offer of the task will be withdrawn and it will not be repeated. You may be given time before actually doing what you were told to do, but you must accept the task at once. An attempt to talk things over, an ironical, suspicious or negative attitude, fear, or lack of confidence, these will make the task impossible at once. #RandolphHarris 9 of 22

If you feel hesitation about the task offered to you, think about your mechanicalness, think about your negativeness, about your self-will—but think quickly. You can do nothing against your weak sides by yourself. The tasks offered to you have the aim of helping you. If you hesitate or refuse them, you refuse help. This must be quite clear in your mind. The realization of your helplessness and your deep sleep must be permanent in you. You can strengthen it by constantly reminding yourself of your nothingness, of your meanness, of your weakness of all possible sorts. You have absolutely nothing to be proud of. You have nothing to base your judgement on. You can see, if you re sincere with yourself, all the blunders and all the mistakes which you made when you tried to act by yourself. You cannot think rightly. You cannot feel rightly. You need constant help, and you can have it. However, you must pay for it—at least, by not arguing. You have to do gigantic work if you want to become different. How can you ever hope to get anything if you hesitate and argue on the first steps, or do not even realize the necessity for help, or become suspicious and negative? If you want to work seriously you have to conquer many things in yourself. You cannot carry with yourself your prejudices, your fixed opinions, your personal identifications or animosities. #RandolphHarris 10 of 22

However, at the same time try to understand that personal is not always wrong. If it is not cleared by the struggle with identification and by the realization of your mechanicalness and your weakness, personal can even help in the work but personal can be very dangerous too. Trying to understand the necessity for deliberate suffering and conscious effort. These are the only two things that can change you and bring you to your aim. Deliberate suffering does not mean necessary suffering inflicted on you by yourself. It means attitude towards suffering. Suffering may come as a result of your feelings, thoughts, and actions connected with your task; it may come by itself as a result of your own faults or as a result of other people’s actions, attitudes or feelings. However, what is important is your attitude toward it. If you do not rebel against it, if you do not try to avoid it, if you do not accuse anybody, if you accept it as a necessary part of your work at the moment, and as a means for attaining your aim, it becomes deliberate. Conscious effort is the effort based on understanding; understand of its necessity first of all, and understanding of causes which make it necessary. The chief cause for conscious effort is your need for breaking the walls of the mechanicalness, of self-will and of lack of self-remembering which constitute your being at present. In order to understand better the necessity for accepting tasks given to you without hesitation, the necessity for deliberate suffering and conscious effort, think about the ideas which brought you to the work, think about the first realization of your mechanicalness and the first realization that you know nothing. #RandolphHarris 11 of 22

In the beginning you realized this and you came for help, but now you doubt whether you must really do as you are told. And you try to find ways to evade it, to stand on your own judgement and on your own understanding. You understood clearly once, that your judgment and your understanding are false and weak, but now you try to keep them again. You do not want to give them up. Well, you can keep them, but you must understand that with them you will keep all that is false and weak in yourself. There are no half measures. You must decide. Do you want the work or not? At present, the psychiatrist who carries an appreciable load of diagnostic and commitment work in an office or hospital tends to give weight to one’s own spontaneous response to the conduct of the individual to whom one is giving a diagnostic interview, and it is largely in terms of this response that the psychiatrist decides whether the behavior of the subject is appropriate or inappropriate in the situation. If the behavior is inappropriate, one decides whether it is to be placed in one of the nonsymptomatic classes of situational impropriety, or whether it betokens mental illness. Some of the grounds already suggested for nonsymptomatic impropriety are: accidents (defining these as inappropriate behavior which the actor could and would have avoided had one known in advance that one was to act thusly); temporary emotional states involving tiredness, nervousness, inebriation, and the like; understandable preoccupation, as when an expectant father cannot submerge himself properly in a situation; organic but not mental conditions, as when a deaf person cannot orient oneself properly in a situation; or circumstantial conditions, as when an individual is unfamiliar with the ritual idiom of the persons one finds oneself amongst. #RandolphHarris 12 of 22

In this course, of course, one is acting somewhat like a layman, however expert in one’s analysis of the psychodynamic implications of a particular impropriety, because while everyone in the society also makes these distinctions, there is no great consensus, especially in regard to the milder offenses, as to how the distinctions should be applied. It can be argued that the distinctions between symptomatic and nonsymptomatic impropriety is a thoroughly ingrained mode of thinking in our society, leading us to divide up any set of improprieties in this twofold way regardless of the goodness of the fit or even its relevance. This dichotomizing tendency is, of course, heavily reinforced by our institutional arrangements, for, after all, an individual who conducts oneself improperly must either be placed in a mental hospital or not placed in a mental hospital, and in either case an appropriate rationale must be provided, since the differential consequences for the offender and one’s kin are very great. Like everyone else, the psychiatrist is apt to interpret some conduct as improper merely because one is not familiar with the involvement idiom and the involvement rulings of the culture of the group from which the patient comes. It is possible to observe, for example, a male, lower-middle-class, middle-aged, refugee psychiatrist make confident detailed judgments about the symptomatic significance of the affective tone of a female, lower-class, adolescent patient—an interesting achievement, since there are not many engagements in which both of these persons could find the immediate presence or the conduct of the other a natural, easeful thing. #RandolphHarris 13 of 22

Similarly, those who know a mental patient slightly, and see one only during fleeting encounters, are likely to interpret one set of acts as symptomatic of one’s mental disorder, while those who have lived with one are likely to pass by these acts and focus upon others. So, also, acts that appear to be signs of mental disorder to an outsider, such as the sight of a mental patient lying on the floor or taking food from a neighbor’s plate, can become normatively natural when, having become familiar with the behavior setting, one learns that the floor is used because the benches are hard or of insufficient number, and that, since no one owns the food, and there is sometimes enough of it, one might as well pick it from the neighbors’ plates as stand in line for more. And from psychiatrist themselves once learns that most regressive “primitive” kind of act can sometimes eventually be “understood” in which a way that its bizarre “meaningless” quality recedes and its pathetic human quality becomes evident. Strange how, with the quiet peace of being alone so many are always aware of the pain of separation. Even stranger is that with an intimate partner, the aloneness turns to loneliness and one becomes one with the separateness. Of all those one has ever known, an intimate partner can be the only one who hears you crying through the laughter, see your tears as you smile. Only this person can come and touch you by saying: “It is lonely, is it not?”…understanding all you feel within you…and they can give you that gift of flight—the method, not the ability, and with it comes the realization of how very lonely…how heavy deep inside one feels, when one is free. #RandolphHarris 14 of 22

After the White Hose, election to Cooperstown may be the next most coveted national honor. Membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame is determined by an election. There is a group of eligible candidates—for example, a player with ten years of experience becomes eligible five years after retirement. However, if the player has been on the ballot for fifteen years and failed to get elected, then eligibility is lost. For otherwise ineligible players, there is an alternative route to election. An Old Timers’ committee considers special cases and sometimes elects one or two candidates a year. The electors are the members of the Baseball Writers Association. Each voter may vote for up to tend candidates. All candidates capturing votes from more than 75 percent of the total number of ballots returned are elected. One problem with this system is that the electors do not have the right incentives to vote for their true preferences. The rule that limits each voter to tend choices forces the voter to consider electability as well as merit. Some sportswriters may believe a candidate is deserving, but do not want to throw away the vote if the player is unlikely to make the cutoff. This same issue arose from voting in presidential primaries, and it appears in any election in which each voter is given a fixed number of votes to distribute among the candidates. #RandolphHarris 15 of 22

Two experts in game theory propose an alternative way to run elections. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that “approval voting” allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability. Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as one wishes. Voting for one person does not exclude voting for any number of others. This there is no harm in voting for a candidate who has no hope of winning. Of course, if people can vote for as many candidates as they wish, who gets elected? Like the Cooperstown rule, the electoral rule could specify in advance a percentage of the vote needed to win. Or it could pre-specify the number of winning candidates, and then the positions are filled by those who gather the most votes. Approval voting has begun to catch on, and is used by many professional societies. How would it work for the Baseball Hall of Fame? Would Congress do better if it used approval voting when deciding which expenditure projects should be included in the annual budget? We look at the strategic issues associated with approval voting when a cutoff percentage determines the winners. Imagine that election to the different sports halls of fame was decided by approval voting, in which all candidates capturing above a fixed percentage of the votes are elected. At first glance, the voters have no incentive to misstate their preferences. The candidates are not in competition with one another, but only with an absolute standard of quality implicit in the rule that specifies the required percentage of approval. #RandolphHarris 16 of 22

If I think Ricky Henderson should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame, I can only reduce his chances by withholding my approval, and if I think he does not belong there, I can only make his admission more likely by voting contrary to my view. However, candidates may compete against one another in the voters’ minds, even though nothing in the rules mandates it. This will usually happen because voters have preferences concerning the size or the structure of the membership. Suppose Dan Marino and John Elway come up for election to the Football Hall of Fame. I think Mr. Marion is better quarterback, although I will admit that Mr. Elway also meets the standard for a Hall of Fame berth. However, I think it overridingly important that two quarterbacks not be elected in the same year. My guess is that the rest of the electorate regards Mr. Elway more highly and he would get in no matter how I vote, but that Mr. Marino’s case will be a very close call, and my approval is likely to tip him over. Voting truthfully means naming Mr. Marino, which is likely to lead to the outcome in which both are admitted. Therefore I have the incentive to misstate my preferences and vote for Mr. Elway. Two players may complement each other, rather than compete, in the voters’ minds. I think neither Geoff Boycott nor Sunil Gavaskar belongs in the Cricket Hall of Fame, but it would be a gross injustice to have one and not the other. If in my judgment the rest of the electorate would choose Mr. Boycott even if I do not vote for him, while my vote may be crucial in deciding Mr. Gavaskar’s selection, then I have an incentive to misstate my preference and vote for Mr. Gavaskar. #RandolphHarris 17 of 22

In contrast, a quota rule explicitly places candidates in competition with one another. Supposed the Baseball Hall of Fame limits admission to only two new people each year. Let each voter be given two votes; he can divide them between two candidates or give both to the same candidate. The candidates’ votes are totaled, and the top two are admitted. Now supposed there are three candidates—Joe DiMaggio, Marv Throneberry, and Bob Uecker. (Marv Throneberry played first base for the ’62 Mets, possibly the worst team in the history of baseball. His performance was instrumental to the team’s reputation. Bob Uecker is much better known for his performance in Miller Lite commercials than for his play on the baseball field.) Everyone rates Mr. DiMaggio at the top, but the electors are split equally between the other two. I know that Mr. DiMaggio is sure to get in, so as a Marv Throneberry fan I give my two votes to him to increase his chances over Bob Uecker. Of course everyone else is equally subtle. The result: Mr. Throneberry and Mr. Uecker are elected and Mr. DiMaggio gets no votes. Government expenditure projects naturally compete with one another so long as the total budget is limited, or congressmen and senators have strong preferences over the side of the budget. We will leave you to think which, if any, is the DiMaggio project, and which ones are the Throneberrys and Ueckers of federal spending. #RandolphHarris 18 of 22

Shifts of financial power over the media always spark hot controversy. Today the sheer size of the media empires provokes anxiety. Established networks and other media are threatened. Moreover, the concentration of financial control in the hands of the Murdochs and Berlusconis conjures up memories of the great press lords of the past, such as William Randolph Hearst in the United States of America or Lor Northcliffe in Britain, men whose political influence was enormous and by no means universally admired. The first and most common criticism heard today is that the new global media will homogenize the World. The failure of the “global marketing” theory, however, suggests this fear is overdrawn. The mass media had their strongest homogenizing effects when there were only a few channels, few different media, and hence little audience choice. In the future, the reverse situation will prevail. While the content of each individual program may be good or bad, the most important new “content” of all is the existence of diversity itself. The shift from a low-choice to a high choice media environment holds no only cultural but political implications. High-tech governments face a future in which multiple, conflicting, custom-tailored commercial, cultural, and political messages will bombard their people, rather than a single message repeated in unison by a few giant media outlets. The old “politics of mass mobilization” and the “engineering of consent” both become far more difficult in the new media environment. Expanded media choice is itself inherently democratic. It makes life difficult for politicians who offer their followers a choiceless environment. #RandolphHarris 19 of 22

A second set of complaints about the new media barons relates to their personal political views. Mr. Murdoch is charged with being too conservative. Mr. Maxwell is too close to the British Labour Party. Mr. Turner is an unpredictable maverick. This one has sold his soul to French President Mitterand, while that one is in bed with someone else. If all these charges were true, they would soon cancel one another out. Far more important than their personal political views, and alliances are the interests they hold in common. Of course, all are capitalists operating in a capitalist framework. As such, we can assume that, in general, the bottom line interest them more than any political line. What matters most about these media lords is not whether they favor left-wing or right-policies and politicians. Far more significant is their support, through their actions more than their words, of the ideology of globalism. Globalism, or at least supranationalism, is a natural expression of the new economy, which must operate across national boundaries, and it is in the self-interest of the new media moguls to spread this ideology. This self-interest, however, collides with another. For if their television and radio stations, their newspapers and magazines are to succeed financially, they will have to de-massify—which means they will have to search for niches, carry specialized material, and appeal to very local audiences interest. The familiar slogan “Think global, act local” perfectly describes the new media imperatives. The very existence, however, of powerful media communication capable of spanning continents will shift power as between national political leaders and the global community. Thus, without necessarily intending it, the new media barons are drastically changing the role of “global opinion” in the World. #RandolphHarris 20 of 22

Just as in the past century national leaders were compelled to justify their actions before the court of national “public opinion,” tomorrow’s national leaders will confront a much-enhanced “global opinion.” And just as the work of Benjamin Day or Henry Hetherington of Emile de Girardin brought the poorer classes into the political life of nation, the activities of today’s media lords will bring new millions into the global decision-making process. Today, nations flout global opinion without worrying over much about the consequences. World opinion did not save the victims of Auschwitz, the people of Cambodia, or, more recently, the boat people fleeing hunger and oppression in Asia. Nor did it prevent the homeless crisis in California. Nevertheless, global opinion has sometimes stayed the hand of killer regimes. The history of human rights is filled with cases in which global protests have prevented the torture or murder of  domestic political prisoner. It is unlikely that Anatoly Shcharansky would have survived his encounter with Soviet prison camps had the outside World not put pressure on Moscow to release him. Andrei Sakharvo’s chances for survival were improved when he won the Nobel Prize and became a household word because of the constant media attention around the World. The global media system will not make nations behave like Boy Scouts. However, it raises the costs of defying World opinion. In the World being constructed by the media barons, what outsiders say about a nation will carry more weight inside than it ever did before. #RandolphHarris 21 of 22

Governments will no doubt invent more sophisticated lies with which to rationalize their self-serving actions and manipulate the increasingly systemic media. They will also step up propaganda efforts to improve their global image. However, if such efforts fail, they could suffer significant economic penalties for behavior frowned on by the rest of the World. South Africa may deny that sanctions hurt its economy or that its pariah image also damaged the country economically. However, its senior officials know better. Global opinion sets the stage for global action. Even if an outraged World does not impose formal trade sanctions on a rogue regime, international agencies like the World Bank may reject their pleas for multibillion loans. Private banks may shy away, foreign investors and tourists go elsewhere. Worse yet, companies and countries still willing to do business with a pariah nation are in a position to drive a harder bargain than might have been the case otherwise. Power in the negotiations shifts as a result of global imagery. What is more, as the importance of global opinion grows in parallel with the spread of the systemic media, shrewd power-players will wield it as an unconventional weapon. It will be used not only to save some political prisoners, or to direct instant relief to disaster zones, but to spare us from some, at least, of the ecological ravages that might otherwise be inflicted on a bleeding planet. When Armenians are attacked by Azeris in Baku, Armenians in Los Angeles know it instantly and begin mobilizing political actions. When Jesuits are murdered by death squad in El Salvador, the entire World knows it. When a trade unionist is jailed in South Africa, the words get out. The new global media are basically in business to make a profit. However, they are inadvertently raising the level of cross-national political action by a dazzling diversity of activist groups. Without even intending it, Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Turner and Mr. Mohn, Mr. Berlusconi and other new media magnates are creating a powerful new tool and placing it in the hands of the global community. However, that hardly scratches the surface of what is happening. The new global media system has, in fact, become the prime tool of revolution in today’s fast-changing World, but that does not mean it is keeping the World informed. #RandolphHarris 22 of 22

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