I just saw one of the best documentaries I ever saw called “The Corporation”.
It’s from 2003 and it basically shows how corporations will ruin this country by plundering and ruining the environment unless people stand up and stop them.
If you haven’t seen it, I would like to recommend it to you.
The Corporation: Directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott. With Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones. Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Average Rating: 8
Duration: 02:25
Quimby
July 18, 2014, 3:07am
2
I bought that on DVD when it first came out. The premise was really ahead of its time: if Corporations are indeed people, they are sociopaths.
friedo
July 18, 2014, 3:55am
3
I saw that a few years ago. I thought it was idiotic.
I saw it in the theater when it came out and thought it was great.
A few years ago I took a class at Harvard’s Labor and Worklife School, and the professor teaching the course was Elaine Bernard. As soon as she walked in, I said to myself, “Hey that’s the lady with the mustache from The Corporation!”
How come? I saw it in the theater, and thought it was excellent, and ought to be seen very widely. The DVD is packed with more good stuff, as I recall.
Lemmytheseal2:
How come? I saw it in the theater, and thought it was excellent, and ought to be seen very widely. The DVD is packed with more good stuff, as I recall.
The movie also has a web site and it’s very informative.
http://www.thecorporation.com
I don’t intend to fault you.
But I think the actual quote was that they were psychopaths and not just sociopaths. Psychopaths are far more disturbed and dangerous than are sociopaths.
I apologize if it turns out that I am mistaken.
No need to apologize; you’re correct, Charlie :
To assess the “personality” of the corporate “person,” a checklist is employed, using diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. The operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social “personality”: it is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. Four case studies, drawn from a universe of corporate activity, clearly demonstrate harm to workers, human health, animals and the biosphere. Concluding this point-by-point analysis, a disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a “psychopath.”
](http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=312 )
Quimby
July 18, 2014, 2:07pm
9
Charlie_Wayne:
I don’t intend to fault you.
But I think the actual quote was that they were psychopaths and not just sociopaths. Psychopaths are far more disturbed and dangerous than are sociopaths.
I apologize if it turns out that I am mistaken.
No need to apologize on many many levels but thanks. If only the rest of the internet were so measured
