Will America Get a Snoot Full?

You might assert I have abrogated my commitment to this blog, since I have not posted a word to it since August.  In search of a larger audience, this fall I squandered my writing time editing and submitting to national publications.

Regrettably, the only place I scored was to a column in the Christian Science Monitor called “Home Forum” which publishes quaint, down-home tales like “Mom’s Worthless Lots,” the one I sold them. Though that was the first time I sent it out, they snapped it right up! There's a lesson.

And unlike a piece I had far higher hopes for that I submitted to a dozen+ national media outlets called “We Love Our Donald Trumps” describing the Trumpian behavior of several businessmen I knew and/or worked for in the late 70’s and early 80’s, when I was first editor, then publisher of a medical catalog in Denver.

The rejects only reinforce something I already know with 100% plus certainty. Something I see every time I go to city council, pick up a magazine, newspaper, turn on the TV or have any other contact with this society: business is king, considered an asset and businessmen are often low grade heroes. Only from my private, unguarded moments observing businessmen and their ethics, they seem quite the reverse. 

Maybe now that Donald Trump, the apotheosis of the business personality with all its arrogance, privilege and lack of morals and consideration for other people’s legitimate interests is set to take over—maybe now Americans will get a snoot full of business, business people, business’s bottom line ethic and all the rest of it. Maybe this is the year I will get my piece on some prototypical businessmen published.

The Critical Eye is however, not holding it’s breath!