Um, Shouldn't Accountability Start a Bit Lower Down the Chain?

Glenn Reynolds points to a New York Times article referencing NGOs, and oversight of them, entitled “Asking the Do-Gooders to Prove They Do Good, and posts a quote from one Coralie Bryant, a Columbia University professor who states this,

""Accountability is the central issue of our time,"

Oh that accountability actually was the central issue of our time.  But it is not.  Accountability is increasingly on the wane and the reason for this waning is that no longer do a large percentage of individuals accept accountability.  Relieved of this burden by the culture of relativism, the nanny state and repressed memories, blame is always passed on to something or someone else.  It is never anyone’s fault, unless you’re a terrorist I guess.  If accountability was the central issue of our time, or if there is a desire for accountability to be the central issue of our time, it has to start with the individual, not a corporation or an NGO.  Corporations and NGOs running amuck, with little oversight, are simply the chickens coming home to roost in a big way and shitting all over themselves.

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