WHY THE EXAMPLES MAY SEEM “OLD.”
Throughout this book the examples will be mostly drawn from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. When I rewrote the book in 2002, the choice of these earlier examples was deliberate. With contemporary examples the principal players involved often feel compelled to defend the specifics of the actions and incidents. What matters for our purposes is the mindset behind those examples - the way of thinking which their participants embodied. To keep the debate focused on mindset it is less controversial to make use of examples from years earlier than today. I have chosen not to revise the examples nor to make the book more “current.” The potency of the argument presented is enhanced by the sim- ple fact that despite thirty years of so-called “progress” the fundamental systemic issues I wrote about in 1994 remain. We deserve better.
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