The Corporation: EVERYBODY should see this film!

Here I go again! I've found another subject which frustrates, disgusts, disappoints and offends me. It has nothing to do with President Bush this time, and if you think I'm too easily affronted, see the film and think long and hard about it.
… and don't worry, Michael Moore only appears for a couple of minutes, and the film doesn't rant and rave as he has a tendency to.

This film lays out in a chilling, intelligent and honest way what is happening in our insane consumer society at this very moment. We HAVE to become more aware of what is going on behind the scenes in this modern consumer-orientated capitalistic world. Of the lies, deception, hypocrisy and greed. This affects all of us, and especially our children and the younger generation who will have to live with the repercussions that surely have to come.

Do we want huge corporations or individuals to have the patent on our DNA? Not to mention all the other animals on the planet. There is an insane race to do this going on at this very moment. Today, every molecule on the planet is up for grabs. In a bid to own it all, corporations are patenting animals, plants, even your DNA. This is true!
Do we want a society where deliberately lying on the news is not illegal, resulting in people who point it out loosing their jobs and having to pay millions of dollars in legal fees?
Do we want the milk we give our children to be tainted, potentially dangerously, because Monsanto lie and deceive in the reckless pursuit of the dollar?

Corporations have no built-in limits on what, who or how much they can exploit for profit.

Here are some quotes from the reviews:

THE PATHOLOGY OF COMMERCE: CASE HISTORIES
To more precisely assess the “personality“ of the corporate “person,“ a checklist is employed, using actual diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the DSM-IV, the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. The operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social “personality”: It is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. Four case studies, drawn from a universe of corporate activity, clearly demonstrate harm to workers, human health, animals and the biosphere. Concluding this point-by-point analysis, a disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a “psychopath.”

PERSONALITY DIAGNOSTIC CHECKLIST

… Such chilling realisations of the corrupting power of the almighty dollar punctuate the film, from the stockbroker who claims the first response of himself and his colleagues on 9/11 was, "We couldn't wait for the bombs to rain down on Saddam Hussein" (a line which speaks volumes about America's reasons for linking the World Trade Center attacks with Iraq) to the CEO who fervently pitches his vision of a world in which every cubic metre of land, sea and air is owned by a corporation.

… Today people can become brands. And brands can build cities. And university students can pay for their educations by shilling on national television for a credit card company. And a corporation even owns the rights to the popular song “Happy Birthday.” Do you ever get the feeling it’s all a bit much?

… The Corporation exists to create wealth, and even world disasters can be profit centers. Carlton Brown, a commodities trader, recounts with unabashed honesty the mindset of gold traders while the twin towers crushed their occupants. The first thing that came to their minds, he tells us, was: “How much is gold up?“


EVERYBODY should see this film if at all interested in the realities of the world they live in.

Here are some links:

A synopsis of the film

Interview with Jane Akre

A review of the film


Think about it!