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nashville_brook

(20,958 posts)
5. "These armies of bureaucrats serve a corporate system that will quite literally kill us."
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 06:51 PM
Jul 2012



They are as cold and disconnected as Mengele. They carry out minute tasks. They are docile. Compliant. They obey. They find their self-worth in the prestige and power of the corporation, in the status of their positions and in their career promotions. They assure themselves of their own goodness through their private acts as husbands, wives, mothers and fathers. They sit on school boards. They go to Rotary. They attend church. It is moral schizophrenia. They erect walls to create an isolated consciousness. They make the lethal goals of ExxonMobil or Goldman Sachs or Raytheon or insurance companies possible. They destroy the ecosystem, the economy and the body politic and turn workingmen and -women into impoverished serfs. They feel nothing. Metaphysical naiveté always ends in murder. It fragments the world. Little acts of kindness and charity mask the monstrous evil they abet. And the system rolls forward. The polar ice caps melt. The droughts rage over cropland. The drones deliver death from the sky. The state moves inexorably forward to place us in chains. The sick die. The poor starve. The prisons fill. And the careerist, plodding forward, does his or her job.



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They're completely amoral meow2u3 Jul 2012 #1
And Yet... I Bet... They Consider Themselves "Good Christians"... Or Whatever... WillyT Jul 2012 #9
their karma will be tremendous. They will stand for the things they do. I believe it. roguevalley Jul 2012 #13
Heard this tune before alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #2
Very interesting read. I watched Chris Hedges on Bill Moyers last Friday. snappyturtle Jul 2012 #3
MUST READ - malaise Jul 2012 #4
"These armies of bureaucrats serve a corporate system that will quite literally kill us." nashville_brook Jul 2012 #5
Anyone who works for a corporation or government needs to take a long hard look in the mirror IowaRevolutionary Jul 2012 #8
Obviously, Hedges has read Arendt. malthaussen Jul 2012 #6
That was the first thing I thought of when I read the OP Hydra Jul 2012 #15
"Devaluing of people into a commodity" malthaussen Jul 2012 #16
If that isn't a good example of boiled frog, I don't know what is Hydra Jul 2012 #18
Powerful words from Chris Hedges IowaRevolutionary Jul 2012 #7
I've run into these all my life. Their version of self-interest is just that - the self. Words mean freshwest Jul 2012 #10
K&R drokhole Jul 2012 #11
aka - politicians Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #12
D&D's "Lawful Neutral" alignment. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #14
Tending Lawful Evil Hydra Jul 2012 #17
Never could understand why "I'm just doing my job" was a good excuse. malthaussen Jul 2012 #19
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