The trend for offering corporate apologies continues.
It's important to read just what is being apologised about because the apology isn't from any body that might be regarded as responsible for ETA's violence (and so they are not, understandably, directly apologising for that, although the implication is a condemnation of that violence). So it's limited, and I'm still trying to work out what the point of doing this is. But it is interesting to note that the concept of corporate repentance is still there and seems to be striking a cord. If that is so, the next question for me is whether this represents a growing awareness of the corporateness involved in being human, and a diminution of individualism?
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Technorati Tags: Euskadi, ETA, apology, violence
Basque Premier Juan José Ibarretxe read an institutional manifesto agreed by consensus by the Basque Government (the Basque nationalist parties PNV and EA and the Spanish leftist party EB) and the socialist party PSE-EE. He apologised to the victims for "not have managed to rise to the occasion as a society", as "we haven’t been able to transmit collectively our support to the thousands of people victims of violence."
It's important to read just what is being apologised about because the apology isn't from any body that might be regarded as responsible for ETA's violence (and so they are not, understandably, directly apologising for that, although the implication is a condemnation of that violence). So it's limited, and I'm still trying to work out what the point of doing this is. But it is interesting to note that the concept of corporate repentance is still there and seems to be striking a cord. If that is so, the next question for me is whether this represents a growing awareness of the corporateness involved in being human, and a diminution of individualism?
EiTB24::Portada
Technorati Tags: Euskadi, ETA, apology, violence
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