A Note to the Editor

A Note to the Editor

From: victor castleton [mailto:vcastleton@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:49 PM
To: david@newyorkcm.com
Subject: RE: NYCM Newsletter

Great article. You hit it right on the ‘nail’. The line between selling and lying has been dissipated. The stone of boundaries has been slowly relocated and then permanently removed. The smear of the moral screen has been done across the board, and that is the genesis of our corrupt changes. Lying is on the order of the day, and has become a habitual tactic of the communicators to desensitized people’s capacities to reason right from wrong. In this case, a position of power avails the one way infringement to be possible with no immediate punitive consequences.
Nobody is taken aback about the atrocious misrepresentation of them in charge to do so. Pandering replaced a healthy embellishing with an unabashed lying form.
We were a country of great fundamentalist men; in fact, abroad we Americans were stereotyped as ‘simpleton cowboys’. Having lived in Europe and South America I always received it as a great complement to our integrity, although us being the inventors of capitalism, signals the contrary; but our stare was believable because our nays where nays and our yeas were yeas.
Watch any commercial on television and it is all pandering. There is not a logical connection to the intrinsic value of what it’s being advertised for the audience to buy; the fact is, they are buying a total distortion, from drugs to car insurance being sold in a box.
The Status Quo has been replaced with the help of smoke and mirrors and a teleprompter. People have been convinced to believe that they should be told certain ‘truths’ in certain ‘ways’ for them to assent intellectually. By now, they rather believe a lie than the truth. Correct me if I am wrong or better yet, if you can do so.
I have been a GC now for a number of years, hmm by the way, how did you get my e-mail? I am going to put your feet to the fire, and I am sure that you have a good answer. May be in this case I should lie to myself, since it is very possible that you can get me a job and that my ‘articuling’ is in reality a ploy to sell you subliminally that I not only can move around some 2X4’s and manage some rowdy carpenters but that I also have an edge that could be included in my Vitae. Isn’t that a bit of the American dream? We all can be somebody and not necessarily by our intellectual or academic merits but by the way we ‘play’ the system. We just ticket paraded a bunch of high school drop outs that know how to through a ball in certain way thus becoming the opium of people’s minds; I can see through them and these ‘heroes’ don’t even believe the fact that everybody believes them. That is a cultural ‘lie’
Fortunately as a GC our Bona Fide projections are connected to fallible mortal people, tangible failure and punishable escape goats. The whole thing was invented when Adam told God “She made me do it” Now the down side is that the fish rots by the head and I am the head. The buck stops with pragmatic me. There is very little margin for error if you are in control and dictate the culture of your environment. Period. A good product must be sold and then deliver with continual ‘salesmanship’ (coaching that is) and pride to the end. At this point Wall Street would substitute pride for hype.
Success is contagious and motivating and so is cronyism within the wrong corporate culture. Cheers!

Victor J Castleton
Wantagh, New York