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"Mad Crowd Disease" Is Here: Part One
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said the president (the figurehead, GWBush) balked at his (O'Neill's) more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from "the corporate crowd,'' a key constituency. This is a shocking admission which clearly reveals that, for the Bush b-administration to maintain its political success and domination, corporate interest must hold a much higher priority than the ethical interests of ordinary mortals.
Corporate interest, without any question, has proved to be an unchecked virus that's spreading like wildfire over the planet, the greatest threat to the Earth, its people and all life short of a cataclysmic asteroid collision. When the corporate sector influences politics and buys its way into government policy-making, it effectively removes We the People from the process of self-determination, rightfully governing ourselves so that ALL people can enjoy Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
The "Corporate Crowd" are like tyrannical brats who, typically, want to enjoy all the privileges of "personhood" (adulthood) without assuming any of the responsibilities that automatically come with it (juvenile delinquency). The "Corporate Crowd" has stealthily managed to corrupt capitalism (fair market, competition) to the point where it has morphed into Corporatism (free market, monopolization). The former system held to rules and regulations made by sovereign human citizens; the latter evades and scoffs at rules and regulations, changes them through political bribery, bullying, cronyism and nepotism - all under the protective armor of "personhood" citizenship.
If this is allowed to continue unchecked, the entire world may once again be reduced to living under a revised kind of feudal system (worse than slavery - slaves were at least fed, clothed and sheltered by their "masters") - but this time the "liege lords" may be just a handful of remaining giant umbrella corporations, the victorious 'kings of the mountain' after decades of global-monopoly takeovers and mergers. The Dark Ages will have returned once more, with a triple-fold vengeance - billions of unemployed and unemployable people, starving, homeless, sickened and diseased. No more "living off the land" in self-sufficiency, no more access to truthful information or free communication, no more open borders or free roads, no place to run and nowhere to hide. The regression to this state is not only logical, but inevitable...because the tyrannical liege lords are NOT HUMAN, they are immortal corpses, the "undead", with no interest in anything but the flow of 'blood' that keeps them going - perpetual profits. The Elite of that world are its fat parasites, sucking their allotted manna from the bloated corpses via lavish stock dividends and nefarious monte games held behind closed boardroom doors. They've no concerns about human penury and its harsh discomforts, being quite unacquainted with such things; their main concerns are perpetuating the longevity of their host and increasing the lucrative favors they reap from that relationship.
How could this ever happen? Simply because the interests of the current "corporate crowd" are so very far removed from the vital interests of humanity as a whole, so very detached from questions about the sustainability of Earth's natural resources and processes - of symbiosis and balance, the natural cycles of death and rebirth, the necessary curbs on a few for the gain of all, etc. The psychological term for such intellectual and emotional detachment from the realities of the natural world, in flesh-and-blood humans, would be called "psychosis" (synonym: insanity). Furthermore, if one were to add the characteristics of amoral greed, irresponsibility, lack of remorse or shame, perverse or reckless (often criminal) antisocial behavior, these serious defects would suffice for permitting a clinical diagnosis of "psychopathic personality" disorder. Following the above definitions, it makes perfect sense to see how the "personhood" of any given corporation may or may not be deemed "psychotic", or even "psychopathic", according to its political activities and manic implementation furthering its vested interests.
From observing the ways in which the "corporate crowd" of this recent era have been systematically behaving, the description of "psychotic" is more than apt. This "corporate crowd" is quite literally insane. A more suitable nomenclature would be the "mad crowd"; and, because their underhanded practices and political manipulations are succeeding so well, so free of resistance or restraint, more and more companies are lured into that malevolent compulsion. It has become a pathological contagion, very much like a virus, but it's a memetic virus, spread culturally rather than organically.
Why not just call it what it is, this cultural disease of our laissez-faire Corporatist culture? "Corporate crowd" influence (yellow alert) has jumped to the next higher level ( orange alert) - "Mad Crowd Disease" is actually here and flourishing
If the "Mad Crowd" disease takes over completely, and some Corporate Junta finally becomes our new World Government, we won't be getting any red alerts, ever. We'll all be no more than basic inventory in the Company Store.
Can we ordinary humans come up with an antidote for the "Mad Crowd Disease"?
Maybe.
But we'll have to wait for the next installment - unless we each begin to FOCUS and work on possible solutions right now. So start writing, folks...genius often lurks in neglected corners of the mind.
Heading for the hills won't help anyone...not at all...
Paxdora
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