A little rant

In line with a book I read recently, Don't Think of an Elephant, I'm working on a new concept/name; "corporates". It's all the organizations and induhviduals who act without conscience or ethics. It's the agribusiness that grows crops but looses top soil. It's the automobile industry that destroyed public transit to create a market. It's the drug companies that market products that don't work or actively cause harm. It's also individuals who do things that deprive others of freedom or peace. This would include both those who act in the guise or under cover of actual corporations (see theft by corporates is protected by law) for instance, or several books by Thom Hartmann, and those who act under cover of public apathy in the face of unkind or illegal acts by others, such as
street theft.

Granted, not all these examples are directly perpetrated by actual multinational corporations. But in most cases I can think of, the (lack of) ethical standards required to commit such acts have been taught to or forced on us by corporates or their supporters (can you say John Dewey's training for the insdustrial revolution?)

What is needed is new lexicon to frame the questions of our time that allow us to think of them as they realistically affect people, rather than as they affect the corporates, and the governments they install. The corporates have spend billions of dollars and much very focused attention on building frames that allow only their way of thought. Real people need to take similar measures if we are to take back our commons and our government.