Mike G. wrote: > (with apologies to Mike Spencer...
Well, maybe that has to do with recent off-list correspondence. None needed with regard to the following: > Shiny Happy Corporate People > > Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: "Mitt Romney got a > lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that > 'corporations are people'... Here's the paradox in this whole concept > of 'corporate personhood.' When it comes to rights, Republicans say > corporations are people. But when it comes to the responsibilities of > personhood - like paying taxes, being sued for negligence or criminal > manslaughter, that sort of thing - their response is 'Are you crazy? > We're talking about corporations here, not people.'" Finding out what this "corporate personhood" deal was all about was part of my initial reason for finding FW years ago. I now think -- I may have recently said here -- that establishing corporate personhood under the color of law was the worst act of polity, of public discourse (and now of jurisprudence) ever, slavery only excepted. My limited knowledge of the US Supreme Court comes mainly from a course in "race relations" [1] I took over 40 years ago -- from "separate but equal" to Brown vs. Board of Education. I was greatly encouraged, other political fol-de-rol not withstanding. Today's SCOTUS is, as far as I can see, bent on reversing any historical developments that might infringe corporate power and forestalling any emergent ones. Corporate personhood seems to be the central myth of that project. > http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6Mde31oOhMGFPIX0R7mZw6HJ7J5KPRMx Yeah. What he said. Corporate entities are to be the citizens of the New Republic. The rest of us are biomass. Barry> Corporations are Wendigo. Ah, just so. Wendigo seems to be a fairly accurate folk-embodiment of our medicalized notion of "psychopath". A new word for me. I guess I don't watch enough ikky splatter movies. :-) But I should have heard of Wendigo. I went to school with Buffy [2] and have made some (apparently insufficient) attempt to follow her music. http://www.burbler.com/buffy-sainte-the-priests-of-the-golden-bull-lyrics.html - Mike [1] The professor asserted numerous times that "there is no such thing as 'race'", citing such examples as blond, blue-eyed Jews and the frog interbreeding study. I forbore to ask, "If there's no such thing as race, what are we doing here? Maybe we should take up unicorn physiology instead." It had not (AFAIK) become fashionable at that time to denounce as racist any criticism of the sovereign state of Israel. [2] Sainte-Marie, not the vampire slayer _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
