An Enormous Corporate Colonization Project Is Underway -- And the US Economy Will Never Be the Same

[Anansi1171]

27. What a brilliant monologue. A prescient film, and as with 1984, one of many ciphers.

I still do not understand why we cannot get to the next-level of strategy to counter Corporatism, such as using the apparatus of Corporations to curb and limit their power. You would think that Occupy would attempt what the name implies. Corporations have proxy wars over competing shareholder groups and management philosophy, while Occupy has had a novel approach in trying to buy "toxic" debt and forgive the debtors. Why not try to pool money to buy shares and directly influence boards that way?

Markets are manipulable, why not try to leverage market behavior on our behalf?

Why not form one large progressive corporation? An employee-owned corporation that can channel our aggregate demand into more beneficial and supportive consumer choices. That can bolster the consumer, and indeed every stakeholder can be a stockholder. It can provide a more readily accessible means to get goods to market at the expense of Koch Industries, Chik-fil-a, etc. It can be a lobbying counterweight to BP, Exxon, Lockhead, etc.

Where's our counterpart to ALEC?

We have witnessed the power of these 1% or 60 families or whatever you will call them over 100 years before COINTELPRO and ever since. They have the play-book written on destroying outside counter-cultures and progressive movements, but we keep running the same plays over, and over, and over.

If the deck is stacked to favor corporations, lets incorporate and subvert its power to reify and dehumanize by investing just one corporation with our humanity and example of democratic governance. Who knows, it may be a more effective form of power than states are, with its ability to transcend borders. At least its evidently worked well for the right.