Reply #31: HS, When will I learn? [View All]

[omega minimo]

"...your thread topic can actually be taken several ways, and has to be thought about." B-)

"Only certain people have the luxury, therefore the ability, to refuse to cooperate with corporate degradation completely, so what attribute does that signal?"

True. I don't think it's possible to refuse to cooperate "completely" and we have to find a balance. Jello Biafra puts it, "Don't give the ____ (bastards?) any more of your money than you have to."

"Which is more anti-corporate: leaving the corporate world, or working there but hating everything every second of the day? At opposite ends, they are the same."

It's a challenge to remain human.

"Of course, it must be mentioned, that never at any time do you actually indicate that the "kissing corporate ass" refers to the workplace and job conditions. In our mind-controlled, corporate pseudo-cultural atmosphere, where everything is play-acted and "framed" for effect, and what seemed to be a window on the world was really the corporation's mirror aimed at you, "anti-corporate rebel" has now become a commercial pose, brought to you by our sponsor, and "groovy rebel/I say whatever I want/nobody stops me," is actually an audience-deliverer, on behalf of a corporation, for its sponsors."

Beautifully put. Have you read Thomas Frank's books or The Baffler? That faux rebel pose is part of what stimulated the OP question.

From #27 "The OP, as minimal as it was, was spurred more by culture than employment. I wonder about kids who have grown up in this corporate branded hyperactive commercial media bubble and how they sort all this out. Do they question or challenge the political power of corporations while wearing/listening/viewing/ingesting/using all the various products of those corporations? Do those kids give themselves the option to "opt out" of supporting and enabling corporate rule with their daily choices and life decisions?"

And as you say:

"What we need is a Government that is stronger than the corporate cartel, so that if people try to fight corporate crime, malfeasance, etc., they might actually even win." :toast:




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