The great tradition of political liberalism, as embodied by men like Roosevelt, the Kennedy brothers and current leaders like Russ Feingold and Chris Dodd, is based on the notion that, at times, only by government intervention can certain imperatives truly come to pass in our culture.
If D&I truly were a business imperative, we would not tolerate NO progress.
If D&I truly were a business imperative, however, then WHY do we see so little actual progress?
Unless your company is truly local, it's imperative that you create specific messaging programs to gain visibility on digital/social platforms.
And, worst of all, few if any truly understand the new imperatives of a workplace shaped by global competition or the challenge posed by ever more expert workers overseas.
It's not a sensory-deprivation chamber, but it nearly is — and it's in this way that "Eyes on the Lines" comes closest to achieving Solnit's imperative to get truly lost, an experience she likens, at one point (after evoking the Old Norse los), to "soldiers falling out of formation to go home".
While this seeming need to populate the river's edge may or may not truly be an evolved shared imperative— linking modern human with our ancestors— it does at least suggest that we are truly tied to our distant past.
He holds his beliefs earnestly and truly believes his work is imperative to his community's well-being.
One of Leibowitz's concerns seems to be that for the imperatives to be truly categorical, they must draw their authority from something other than human needs and values, which are too weak a foundation to ground categorical imperatives.
