Schools of Association

"My decision is not any negative reflection on you. It's not personal." This would be a Business School graduate, meaning, if it is personal, then it is not political or economic; so, if it is political and/or economic, it is not personal. "It's your decision, for you to personally and responsibly make." This would be a Social Work graduate, or maybe some variety of therapist, recognizing that what is personal choice is also political, empowering or disempowering, and possibly economic investment or divestment. What is personal, like what is political, is about power and vested interest and small ego-staged, even if short-term. "Our decisions about who runs for office, who votes which way, who nominates whom and why, are matters of individual conscience." If this statement is made by someone in political office, who knows? Maybe s/he gets it that personal is also political, that individual organic corporations are also economic actors and investors, or not. So, what do you think? What is your personal preference? The Business Party view, segregating personal faith from political powers of relationship, financial influence, Or the Social Worker model of power analysis, individual through global, competitive through cooperative, personal through ecopolitical? I suppose this is at least one reason, my Republican colleagues, when I was in a Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, found the cultural distance from a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program subtle opaque unclear ambiguous; while the Democrats and Green Party students found differences between MPA and MBA cultures profound, cooperative v competitive, looking for Win/Win resonance as opposed to searching for Win/Lose ZeroSum endless growth of market share. If all organic energy systems are also ecopolitical communicators, then we all have ecotherapeutic opportunities; Some great, some small, but all one moment, one message, one relationship, one rhetorical non-violent/violent association/dissociation at a personal political time.