… his (Dave Pollard’s) thinking and writing shine.
A significant part of today’s Open Space proceeding in Chicago (where well-known bloggers AKMA, the Happy Tutor and Chris Corrigan are commingling with many other bright minds and open hearts in pursuit of touchstones for giving and civil society) has touched on “isms”, including centrism and corporatism, and issues such as hierarchy, power, control and a growing sense of the need for major change.
And Kenneth Lay of Enron was finally indicted for what the Chicago Tribune reported was a “massive conspiracy”. See Tom Matrullo’s illuminating perspective on the possibility that it took two years for the indictment to come down in order to give Mr. Lay an opportunity to put his affairs into some kind of order.
With impeccable timing, Dave Pollard offers us another excellent piece of thinking whrein he critiques the movie/book The Corporation, and provokes thought about ways to address the extremes of corporate power in our lives.
A brief excerpt:
He lays out a discouraging case that “not only is the state playing a diminishing role in protecting citizens from corporations, it is playing an expanding role in protecting corporations from citizens”. But like Peter Singer, Bakan is pragmatic and warns that the job will be difficult: Corporations cannot be relied upon to reform or restrain themselves, but at the same time governments which are already the handmaidens of corporatist interests are not going to be inclined to institute new regulations and restrictions that bite the hand that feeds them.
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