The Search for Heroes and Villains

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7. there are a couple of fatal flaws in the author's argument

one is embodied in the quote from the Talmud: We don't see things the way they are. We see things the way we are. The premise being that there exists this true state outside human observation, of the way human affairs ARE. But that's impossible, of course. There is no objective true state of affairs. The closest we can get to that is the collective subjective- and consensus about any given human affair can get it wrong too. History is replete with examples. We see things through our filters and the most we can do is recognize that and consider the perspective of others and enlarge our base of knowledge to broaden the prisms we view the world through.

I'm not keen on the word evil. I don't use it. Perhaps that's a fault, but operating within the author's use of language, and her charge that liberals see corporations as evil, she neglects to investigate that charge, leaving the reader to do so.

Here you go: Corporations have become the most powerful block of entities in our society. They influence everything, and arguably exert control over the population. Is that influence/control, more beneficial or more detrimental? The author doesn't say. And she neglects to recognize that we use a form of shorthand when we discuss such things, that can be mistaken for "oversimplification". The author does that in her brief essay.

It's a fairly well written piece, but it's not a terribly thoughtful piece.