The Corporation

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stu8340

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:03:00 +0000

The Corporation

 

 

 

 

Caught this on the " Sundance Channel " .......All must see this film !

This will show you how the Corporations have maniuplated US into the

state of where we are at today.... This is extremely educational and

frightening..

 

 

 

The Corporation (2004)

Starring: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer

Abbott Rating UNRATED

 

# Plot Outline Documentary that looks at the concept of the

corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

# Plot Synopsis: Since the late 18th century American legal decision

that the business corporation organizational model is legally a

person, it has become a dominant

# economic, political and social force around the globe. This film

takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model

through various case studies.

# What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type

of " person " typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath

without conscience. Furthermore,

# we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our

future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and

determination can do to stop it.

 

An epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less

than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the

planet Earth in our lifetime--a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if

not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as

we know it has been around for only about 150 years. It used to be

that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in

agenda. If a town needed a bridge built, a corporation was set up to

finance and complete the project; when the bridge was an accomplished

fact, the corporation ceased to be. Then came the 19th-century robber

barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not

as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment

with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

(i.e., power and profit)--ad infinitum.

 

The Corporation defines this endlessly mutating life-form in

exhaustive detail, measuring the many ways it has not only come to

dominate but to deform our reality. The movie performs a running

psychoanalysis of this entity with the characteristics of a

prototypical psychopath: a callous unconcern for the feelings and

safety of others, an incapacity to experience guilt, an ingrained

habit of lying for profit, etc. We are swept away on a demented

odyssey through an altered cosmos, in which artificial chemicals are

created for profit and incidentally contribute to a cancer epidemic;

in which the folks who brought us Agent Orange devise a

milk-increasing drug for a world in which there is already a glut of

milk; in which an American computer company leased its systems to the

Nazis--and serviced them on a monthly basis--so that the Holocaust

could go forward as an orderly process.

 

The movie risks preaching-to-the-choir reductiveness by calling on the

usual talking-head suspects--Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore.

And except for an endlessly receding tracking shot in an infinite

patents archive, there's scarcely an image worth recalling. Still, it

maps the new reality. This is our world--welcome to it. --Richard T.

Jameson

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" A Time Comes When Silence Is Betrayal " .... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

 

" Fascism will come to this country and it will come disguised as

Americanism " ..........Governor Huey Long

 

" I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't

agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it

would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator, "

Bush joked/said. -- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

 

" Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the

voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the

path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of

terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives

in fear. " - President Harry S. Truman.