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Comments (5)
Don't you find it the tiniest bit ironic that the original business, the business with those principles, did not, in fact, endure?
Posted by Tripp
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October 20, 2009 8:08 PM
Posted on October 20, 2009 20:08
Tripp - You don't know that the business didn't survive. The bank may have (and probably did) move into a larger building at some other location. Many banks move out of the city center into the growing northern suburbs, particularly in Dallas Texas.
Posted by Pamela Jean
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October 20, 2009 8:13 PM
Posted on October 20, 2009 20:13
Thanks Pamela Jean. But, in fact, the bank did not survive. ONE reason, is because it failed to live up to those lofty and noble ideals!
Posted by Gerald Britt
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October 21, 2009 9:25 AM
Posted on October 21, 2009 09:25
So Tripp's irony is in fact the bittersweetness of your story, Gerald. It would be interesting to try to figure out who asked for that to be placed on the building and what became of that individual (if there was one...).
Posted by Pamela Jean
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October 21, 2009 1:57 PM
Posted on October 21, 2009 13:57
I can see where my comment might come across as snark. That is not what I intended.
I meant to make the philosophical point that cooperation and competition are both part of the human psyche, and we will always have tension between them. I've just started noticing how many of our innate human drives oppose each other, and that finding a balance between them is not easy. Perhaps this is what gives us our adaptability and what has given us the ability to climb to the top of the food chain.
I can see that this is a pretty big point to try to make in a pretty short sentence.
Posted by Tripp
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October 23, 2009 9:36 AM
Posted on October 23, 2009 09:36