Corporations Want to Rule the World

Corporations have no limitations on who, what or how they will exploit for selfish profit. Corporations have taken a twisted advantage of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States that provided a broad definition of citizenship that granted rights to blacks to vote and own property. The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause allowed corporations to claim themselves as protected individuals with the rights of a citizen in due process. Corporations have, in principle, been given the status of a legal “person.” The sole purpose of this bastardization of the law is to create wealth for corporation owners while allowing them to escape responsibility for the corporation’s actions. Thus, the laws have been manipulated to give corporations more freedom to operate outside of the law and ignore what is good for overall humanity's welfare and health. So, if corporations are treated as individuals then what kind of individual or personal morality or code of conduct do they possess and uphold?

In today's world, everything ... everything ... is up for grabs to possess and pervert for corporate profiteering. Every plant, animal, molecule and even our own DNA is fair game for corporations to patent as sole ownership to hold hostage something that was considered free, public domain, or even personal. This allows many of the basics necessary for human comfort and existence to be "owned" by something wanting to sell you something you used to have for free or by right.

Governments used to protect us from corporations by defining boundaries of exploitation and operation. Today, governments are openly inviting corporations into areas they were restrained from in the past. In other words, corporations have now bought the governments and are using them for their gain, as well.

Interestingly enough, the film reveals that corporations meet the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. Psychopaths are defined as selfish and ruthless in their behavior with a propensity to pathological lying and a grandiose sense of self-worth. Add to that an inability to feel guilt or remorse and I am sure you can think of a company or three that definitely fits the definition. That's the kind of "person" we are dealing with when dealing with a corporate entity.

Corporations become the proverbial "They" we all whisper about. They demonstrate harm, disloyalty, and lack of concern for their workers. They disregard human health and welfare as the profit points warrant. Animals? Tools to manipulate and degrade in search of means and methods to produce more money, faster and cheaper no matter the horrible treatment of the creatures or environment. The biosphere is their playground to pollute and corrupt and destroy in the name of greater profit. Nothing else matters.