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11:45 PM - The Corporation This evening we watched The Corporation, a remarkably slick documentary based on the book of the same name by Joel Bakan. The basic premise of the film is that the modern global conglomerate is an amoral institution hell-bent on the pathological pursuit of profit and power at any and all cost. The film drives home this point by illustrating a handful of the more glaring and well-documented examples of corporate malfeasance in an effort to demonstrate that corporations generally have all of the psychological attributes of a typical psychopath. The problem with such an approach, of course, is that it proves far too much far too easily. It may be applied to any human institution, from the corporation to the commune to the church to the government. Give any group of people some power and some of them will abuse it to their own ends. The crucial issue, then, ought not be which institutions and economic systems may be most readily held in check by moral individuals acting as men rather than angels. Alas, with the exception of Milton Friedman, no one in this film even attempts to address this crux of the matter. Technorati Tags: (
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