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Business New Haven
7/3/1995
By: BNH
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Ghost Luster
Thanks so much for the article on our ElectroPress technology, “The Ghost in the Machine” (May BNH). (I liked the takeoff on Tracy Kidder's book.) I think you did a fine job capturing a very complex subject.
Friends from many professions have complimented the article, and I may get a swelled head, never expecting to achieve notoriety in my partiocular trade. It's been fun! Also, I was sincerely flattered that you quoted my historical perspective. Thanks.
For the record, Kurt E. Volk Jr. is no longer associated with the company.
- Kurt R. Volk
President
Kurt H. Volk Inc.
Milford
The Wages of Hate
I just read “Confessions of an Angry White Male” (Armchair Economist) in the June 1995 Business New Haven.
I was pleasantly surprised to read such an editorial in a business-oriented paper that is still in its early years, and very dependent on the good will of the community.
I hope this business community appreciates both the courage and the wisdom of your statements.
From ages six to ten, I heard the World War II news by shortwave. The hate happened - the war happened. At age 50, a client showed me his snapshots of the bodies at Auschwitz taken when he entered that camp. But, at age 61, I now hear the identical rhetoric in this country, by ad-hoc groups, that was used by ad-hoc groups in Germany in the 1930s, that brought on that war and those murders.
Our country depends on its citizens acting responsibly. Our Constitution guarantees their ability to do so. Hate-mongers have a responsibility that they ignore. We, the potential listeners, have a responsibility not to tolerate such conduct.
The inherent value of our Constitution, and our political systems, is evidenced by the fact that we have consistently overcome insane and wrong-thinking action by our government and our citizens. However, the cost to all of us in each instance has been directly related to how soon we collectively do what is right, act responsibly, and speak up with conviction.
One of the lessons that came out of the
Nazi experience is that those people in the masses, the business world and the financial world who encouraged and tolerated the hate-mongering for their selfish purposes, were ultimately destroyed by that which they encouraged or tolerated.
The millions of German civilians and soldiers who lost their lives because the Nazis were allowed to flourish and to kill Jews, gypsies, gays, Catholics, Poles or anyone who was not “real” German (read that a “real” American) paid the ultimate price for tolerating hate. Even the most avid revisionist who denies the reality of the Holocaust cannot deny the reality of what Nazi Germany did to itself.
Since some members of our business community have taken it upon themselves to benefit from the likes of Gordon Liddy, knowing the outcome of hate-mongering, it is appropriate to simply stop doing business with them.
Recently, I took ten seconds to delete two radio stations from my car radio tuner. The local station had had me as a listener for more than 35 years.
- John R. Gorman
Gorman & Enright, P.C.
New Haven
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