Multinational Corporations are kind of like Terminators when you think about.

[JohnnyBoots]

Built by man, escalting in size and scope over decades. Given personhood and they develope a mind of their own. Destroying anything in their way, at any cost to further expand their control over the world. The average man is left picking up the pieces and fighting for his life against a juggernaut of evil...Now we are a country run by Corporations, the american people are for the benefit of the parent coporations and exist at their whim. Unless some serious type Che Guevera (the real far Left) shit goes down, I don't see how we unshackle ourselves from the chains of coporate serfdom.

[27inCali]

1. on this point

there is little difference of opinion left right or center.

[MisterP]

2. ever since the 50s SF monsters have often been symbols for the dehumanizing, alienating forces of

industry and capital, chewing workers and Third Worlders up and spitting them out: Godzilla was Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Le May, and Castle Bravo, an alien force haunting and re-leveling Japan. 50s SF had social critics like Pohl, Bernard Wolfe, and Vonnegut decrying the utter, murderous dehumanization of the corporation, which had become inimical to life itself. (Still, it had socially-disengaged writers like Asimov, and America's answer to Araki Sadao and Kita Ikki in Heinlein.) 80s dystopia films--Terminator, Robocop, Total Recall--mocked the Thatcher-Reagan-Helmsley-Nakasone era of government and corporate corruption.

[JohnnyBoots]

3. I think your hammer just met my nail.

Very insightful. I think I may be renting some of those this weekend. Thanks.

[Soylent Brice]

4. nice analogy. K&R