The Search for Heroes and Villains

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9. I have more to add: The search for "heroes and villains" stretches back into human history

as far as human history goes. We can discuss why, this is so, but not that it is so. A cursory examination of our earliest myths- Gilgamesh, for instance- illustrates that clearly. So the trick is, to be aware of that human tendency and not to fall into the twin traps of idolization and demonization: A difficult if not Sisyphean task in our culture.

The casting of corporations as villain has a long tradition. It's in the tradition of of viewing systems that bestow great power on the few at the expense of the many. I'd ask the author if she believes that such structures are more positive than negative in outcomes for the majority living within them..

When liberals speak to the "evils" of corporations, they're speaking more to the system that enables the few to shape our world, than to any individual. They're referring to a system that makes CU the law of the land, that creates a system that bails out corporate entities guilty of gross mismanagement at the very least, with taxpayer money. They're speaking to corporations that place profit over life and the environment. Do some corporate entities act well under the system? Yes. Do the most powerful and profitable? Largely no.

And anyone that can't see the difference between abjuring a system and bigotry against a religious or ethnic group, isn't looking.