A letter to Thomas Friedman

This electronic letter is submitted for the audience of the human platitude, Thomas Friedman.

Letter to Friedman Sunday, August 27, 2006 4:06 PM

Good Day,

This letter is directed toward the Time’s most successful neoLiberal apologist, Thomas Friedman. Although, I am yet to read the monstrosity, “The Earth is Flat,” I did have the displeasure of watching Friedman be interviewed on C-span. Fortunately my job has yet to be offshored. However, for all of the others who have lost their jobs to cheaper offshore labor markets, I would like to encourage Mr. Friedman to specify where all of these new jobs are that involve synthesizing knowledge, belonging to distinct professional pursuits. While he is at it, perhaps he can segway into a description of the synergistic effect that this synthesizing engenders, creating virtual environments, where inter-organizational teams can be deployed for purposes of creating mind-maps of the synthetic products of these interdisciplinary activities involving the synthesis of ideas.

Russell Cole