The Corporate Control Of Society And Human Life

"Large transnational corporations are clearly the dominant institution of our time. They're preeminent throughout the world but especially in the Global North and its epicenter in the US. They control or greatly influence what we eat and drink, where we live, what we wear, how we get most of our essential services like health care and even what we're taught in schools up to the highest levels. They create and control our sources of information and greatly influence how we think and our view of the world and them. They even now own patents on our genetic code, the most basic elements of human life, and are likely planning to manipulate and control them as just another commodity to exploit for profit in their brave new world that should concern everyone. They also carefully craft their image and use catchy slogans to convince us of their benefit to society and the world, like: "better things for better living through chemistry" (if you don't mind toxic air, water and soil), "we bring good things to life" for them, not us), and "all the news that's fit to print" (only if you love state and corporate friendly disinformation and propaganda). The slogans are clever, but the truth is ugly."

This piece goes into why multi-nationals cannot be trusted to have the consumers best interests at heart. In spite of the promises of "globalization", it means no good for the average person. Many of the economic problems now plaguing the U.S. and others, can be traced directly to corporate greed and the corruption it's brought to political processes. Their campaigns to bring about their own version of the U.S. militarys' "full spectrum dominance" has so deluded the publics' perception of what they're actually doing, that many of those who are being driven to economic ruin by globalization, still believe that globalization, or a completely free trade economy, is the only road to prosperity. These same people still fail to notice that the gap between the top percent and the rest of us is growing wider and wider every single day.

One hundred years ago, this very same threat to the economic security of the average citizen was recognized, confronted, and combated, yet today, all the progress of the previous century has been eroded away by the politicians who've been bought and paid for by the mega-corporations. "Monopoly" was once a bad word, but within the last 25 years all the restraints placed upon corporations have been reversed, and now companies that had been broken up to stop monopolies are once again consolidating at an alarming rate, and gathering so much power with the aide of their political flunkies, that neither politicians nor the public are even mentioning the word "monopoly" any more, and worse, they're now welcoming the dawning of global coporate empires, many of whom already wield more power than most countries in the world.

Far too many people are simply blinded by all the sparkling baubles dangled in front of their eyes.