Again, I blog fresh off of watching another film, this time a documentary: The Corporation. All I can say (for now) is that if you haven't seen this, go watch it. (Unless you're the kind of person who runs for your life when you hear the names of "leftist" commentators like Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Howard Zinn.)
Coming in at roughly 2 and half hours long (but never really feeling like it's a drag) it explores the problems associated with trans-national corporations in various societies and countries: e.g. the power to exert pressure on news media, the power to highly influence another country's economy and policy making, and the power to control the contexts in which corporations are viewed. But what the documentary is interested in is how corporations are given legal rights as "persons". Taking that as it's starting point, the film then provokingly diagnoses the "corporate person" as sharing the same traits with - a sociopath. As startling and provocative as that may sound, in the course of the documentary you eventually see why this is kind of an accurate diagnosis after all. Agree, disagree, or somewhere along the continuum, you won't go away feeling like you've sat through some dry, pedantic lecture.
Visit: www.thecorporation.com
