NONPROFIT DOUBLESPEAK: EXCESSIVE COMPENSATION
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH $200,000 IS EXCESSIVE COMPENSATION How did I wander into this strange land where nonprofit executive salaries over $200,000 may be considered excessive? When you are a lone voice standing against the crowd you are likely to be labeled a) schizophrenic (R.D. Laing [1] ); b) a terrorist (G.W. Bush); c) mental-patient (Ken Kasey); d) paranoid (Sydney Pollak); e) neurotic (Freud); f) a poltergeist (Spielberg). In the movies (at least the movies of the 60’s and 70’s) when you stand by your guns against all odds you are a hero (especially if you triumph in the end). I’m thinking of Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; RollerBall; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, etc. Even fairly recent movies, such as The Matrix, speak to the issue of a hidden reality which we are either afraid (or not permitted) to see. Sadly, in that film, the “false” reality is so powerful one has to take a drug (the red pill) to b...