I watched about 2/3 of the movie "The Corporation" today. I stopped because it was pretty repetitive in it's condemnation of capitalism and praising of "public" ownership and solutions, which is to say they were pretty much old fashioned socialists. I happen to agree with them that corporations are vile and evil, but the movie only made occasional passing mention of the fact that virtually EVERYTHING corporations are able to do is due to the backing of the government (a corporate subsidiary these days). Everything from the courts to the police to the legislature to the president of the USA are dedicated to the corporations, which means they are dedicated to the ultra-rich stockholders actually. Which lets us know how this all came down. Rich folk, tired of being held accountable for their actions bought laws allowing them to pretend that they are not responsible for their actions! Of course, since every organ of the government is and always has been dedicated to serving those very ultra-rich folks, this was not only allowed but celebrated and protected with all of the power at the government's disposal. It's not capitalism that is the problem, that's just free people making free decisions to trade. No, the problem is government and it's control of the markets through violence, imposing monopolies, "regulating" trade to keep competition from entering markets and so on, that is the problem. There is no governmental solution to corporate greed because government is the very foundation of the corporation. Naturally I advocate disbanding, peacefully, all governments :-) I do agree with the film makers that Corporations are not people and should not be treated as such, but I think the chance of changing that and still retaining the violent government we have is effectively ZERO. Every government official, elected or appointed or hired is a CORPORATE WHORE, they will never give up the easy money and easy power they get by whoring for the corporations and their ultra-rich owners. What should we do then? We should ignore government whenever possible, obey them only when their enforcers are watching, sabotage everything they do and withhold all support financially and morally, de-legitimize all government as much as you can, mock them and point out their evil nature, from cable monopolies to government indoctrination camps posing as "schools" to bombing civilians for the profit of oil companies, point it all out over and over again, that is all we can do if we are unwilling to resort to violent revolt, and I am unwilling to revolt because really, it's never worked in the past anyway and it's not likely to work now either, maybe education will work. NOT government controlled education of course but education by free people speaking the truth.
I would boycott NBC, if I ever watched it that is. I actually never watch anything on the old line networks, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX. Everything I watch is on the cable only stations... do they still broadcast over the air? Ah well, this story is about the fact that it seems NBC refused to air an ad put together by some Catholic outfit that features an embryo and all of the hardships it faced in early life ending up with the revelation that they were talking about Obama. Here is the ad , check it out and see how unoffensive it is. Like I said, if I watched them I'd quit now. :-/