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166. And where do the corporations come from?

Why have they become so powerful? Are they not simply picking up belief/behavior cues that already exist in the population, and re-marketing the ones that are advantageous to them?

A culture markets things by creating narratives about them - largely unconscious stories we tell ourselves and each other about how the world works. They are mostly lies and self-deceptions, but that's the only thing that works to hold a culture together. People are fundamentally emotional and non-rational. Me included.

There is virtually nothing about the structure of human society that is abnormal or artificial (whatever those words might mean in this context). Distasteful yes, but that's not quite the same thing. things got to be this way not because of corporate malfeasance, but because at each step of the way the collective "we" agreed on some level that the next step was a good idea.