@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From: •••@••.••• Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 To: •••@••.••• cc: •••@••.•••, •••@••.••• Subject: The Corporation as machine. I've enjoyed Jay Hansons recent posts and think them valuable. There were some things I didn't agree with but they were minor and not worth arguing about. But I can' t accept " The Corporate Machines " because after all that good work it leaves one with the wrong concept and image. Rather than machine, a corporation is an organism. Some are dressed in technical outerwear and some are not ( Bruce Willis ). A machine can do things without human intervention if it is designed so, at least for a while. A corporation is an inert mass of stuff, without human involvement. As far as I can tell most humans are organically based. Their ideas and conceptions and plans are also organically based. If you agree that the Earth, or at least the Biosphere is a living thing, then a more acurate description of a corporation would be an organism similar to a melanoma. It behaves just like malignant cancer. It must grow or die. It transports itself throughout the host and where it stops, it destroys healthy parts of the organism and turns them into toxins. It is a natural process ( human self interest ) gone wrong . Like cancer it can be stopped if you deal with it early BEFORE IT SPREADS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOST. We seem to be at that point now. The giant malignancies are currently attempting to implant themselves in a very large and important organ called China . If China becomes toxic ( Like Nigeria, Kuwait, Eastern Europe, Nevada, etc.) then our host may not recover. WE can be the immune system of the biosphere. We could organize groups of us to concentrate on specific large tumors like GE or Exxon, or Congress and; 1- stop the growth. 2- Shrink the tumor to a manageable size. 3- destroy the defective genetic code- aka - Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific RR ( corrupt 1886 Supreme Court decision that makes a corporation a person ). #3 will require highly specialized groups of Lawyer cells, but I'm not sure there are enough good Lawyer cells to counteract the bad Lawyers that benefit from this defective genetic code. Thanks for listening, Joshua2 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore (•••@••.•••) Wexford, Ireland •••@••.••• | Cyberlib=http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib Materials may be reposted in their entirety for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
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