Manager’s Samizdat:

“Of course, the merchant has a role to play in society, but glorification of merchant activities tends to draw people away from a recognition of the true source of life.”

- Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution (1978)

Been musing on the notion of “the Curriculum of the West” of late (see kulturCritic) – more on this later.  Fukuoka’s book, quoted above, should clearly be part of the “Management Curriculum of the West.”