Thread: The Corporation

Playlist of all 23 chapters

What is a Corporation?

The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.




One particularly disturbing part is...
Part 5: The Case Histories
Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus cost. Other externalities such as pollution and adverse health effects emerge. These include the genesis of the petrochemical industry and links to cancer, birth defects and other toxic effects. Another externality is harm to the biosphere or the environmental costs resulting from the way corporations operate, costs that will be passed off to future generations. Have we created a doom machine?


Thoughts?

"We" are the doom machine in that the individual surrenders their individuality to empower the collective "we".

The collective "we" takes on many forms, the corporation is just one example.

I know the collective doom machine is simply a reflection of that doom machine which always resides inside our individual hearts, whether we acknowledge it or not. But, individuals being aware of exactly how deep the wound in our heart goes can hopefully allow that doom machine to mend the tears, or at the very least, handle them with a little more grace then we collectively have been. Because, as it stands right now, the collective "we" isn't taking steps that are sustainable. Period.

I always knew that a form of Thanatos resides in us all, but I hope for anyone's sake that it should always be hard to accept that Thanatos has actually become the captain of this communal ship we ride in.

In any event, the upcoming years should be interesting. We are right on the cusp of history. I hope "we" don't drop the ball.

The collective "we" seems to have severed its ties to the plight of the individual. As such, those tears in the individual simply cannot be mended by it. The individual is the individuals only hope.

Things must run their due course despite the duality of right or wrong, good or bad. What must be must be, though most will not be in acceptance of it.

I think it will just be a transition. It seems difficult for us to face the music because this moment as it is now, seems so real it might hard for some to let go of.

I really like the metaphor of birth that Terence McKenna used in one of his lectures,

Before i watch this can you tell me if this is about america or is it made from an international perspective?

Originally Posted by Cyclic13

I know the collective doom machine is simply a reflection of that doom machine which always resides inside our individual hearts, whether we acknowledge it or not. But, individuals being aware of exactly how deep the wound in our heart goes can hopefully allow that doom machine to mend the tears, or at the very least, handle them with a little more grace then we collectively have been. Because, as it stands right now, the collective "we" isn't taking steps that are sustainable. Period.

I always knew that a form of Thanatos resides in us all, but I hope for anyone's sake that it should always be hard to accept that Thanatos has actually become the captain of this communal ship we ride in.

In any event, the upcoming years should be interesting. We are right on the cusp of history. I hope "we" don't drop the ball.

I major in Business .

Originally Posted by DeathCell

I major in Business .

"Busi-ness" is the perverse art of mindlessly, sometimes mindfully, keeping busy for business sake.

Ssshh... can't spoil the fun... We don't want to wake them...

I'm late... I'm late...

For a very important date...

Originally Posted by Cyclic13

"Busi-ness" is the perverse art of mindlessly, sometimes mindfully, keeping busy for business sake.

Ssshh... can't spoil the fun... We don't want to wake them...

I'm late... I'm late...

For a very important date...

That would be the point of the white rabbit, to represent the "adult" that mindfully watches his clock hour by hour, oh me I'm late!

Originally Posted by Cyclic13

Playlist of all 23 chapters

What is a Corporation?

The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.




One particularly disturbing part is...
Part 5: The Case Histories
Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus cost. Other externalities such as pollution and adverse health effects emerge. These include the genesis of the petrochemical industry and links to cancer, birth defects and other toxic effects. Another externality is harm to the biosphere or the environmental costs resulting from the way corporations operate, costs that will be passed off to future generations. Have we created a doom machine?


Thoughts?

Communist!!!

I haven't finished watching this, and I haven't read any of the replies (except for jeff's "red scare" only because it's the last comment ) but I am currently on 11/23 - Basic Training (about children and advertisement). I already know how pervasive advertisement is. And I hate it. I hate it more than anything. And I already knew about the manipulation of children through these ads. But hearing it again and how they do it fills me with so much digust...

Also, those two guys who are doing the corporate sponsor -- fucking whores.

Edit: I just watched 16/23, the whole deal on patenting life and the human genome and I am absolutely offended. Completely disgusted, I cannot believe this shit is happening. It is a fucking disgrace. Unforgivable.

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

Unforgivable.

Originally Posted by stonedape

YES!!!!

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

So what are you gonn do about it?

We'll see. Maybe nothing.

Originally Posted by stonedape

And fuck me.... I knew someone was going to do this. Guess I can't blame you, I'd do the same thing.

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

I haven't finished watching this, and I haven't read any of the replies (except for jeff's "red scare" only because it's the last comment ) but I am currently on 11/23 - Basic Training (about children and advertisement). I already know how pervasive advertisement is. And I hate it. I hate it more than anything. And I already knew about the manipulation of children through these ads. But hearing it again and how they do it fills me with so much digust...

Also, those two guys who are doing the corporate sponsor -- fucking whores.

Edit: I just watched 16/23, the whole deal on patenting life and the human genome and I am absolutely offended. Completely disgusted, I cannot believe this shit is happening. It is a fucking disgrace. Unforgivable.

So what are you gonn do about it?