Documentaries

So this weekend I watched 'the corporation' and 'super size me'. I would highly suggest both, but watch the corporation first.

Basically ‘the corporation’ is a documentary which dissembles various problems with corporations and how they function today. It doesn’t offer any solutions to the problem, but before any problem can be fixed, it must be clearly understood. And this movie goes a long way toward outlining many of the problems with corporations.

One of the first things it goes over is that corporations are legally treated as if they were people. And they are ‘people’ who have strict legal outlines of how they must interact with the world. They are required, by law, to hold their own self interest above ALL other interests. This basically creates a legally bound psychopath, AKA sociopath, or:
antisocial personality disorder
Function: noun
: a personality disorder that is characterized by antisocial behavior exhibiting pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights, feelings, and safety of others that is often marked by a lack of remorse for having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from others.

An interesting little bit about corporations is they are legally ‘psychopathic people’ that are not held to the same laws that we hold human psychopaths to. For example if someone suffers ‘wrongful death’ through unsafe business practices, i.e. 10 children choke to death on a toy, the business is not tried as a person, which they legally are. If a psychopath were to kill 10 children by strangulation they would get the death penalty, or life in prison at least. A corporation with the same amount of dead children would at most get a fine & a recall. (yes, I know, I used children in the example, to bring the knee jerk reaction ‘oh my god! the children!’ deal with it.).

To get much more eloquent arguments as to why corporations need to lose their ‘people’ status (which they gain through a blatant misuse of the emancipation proclamation). And need to be held much more accountable for the damage they do to people & the world at large, watch ‘the corporation’.

One of the neat things about watching ‘super size me’ after ‘the corporation’ is it really shows a case in point, further backing the ‘psychopathic people’ outlook that the corporations are required to maintain. McD’s knows their food is bad for you but it is profitable.

Profits over people is not good business, it’s the law.

-De