Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

By Joe Bageant, AlterNet. Posted August 1, 2009.

Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.




A few years ago, compliments of the George W. Bush administration, I got an education in political reality. The kind of education that makes you get drunk at night and scream and bitch at every shred of national news:

"Do you see how these capitalist bastards have made so much money killing babies in Iraq? And how they are have brainwashed us and gouged us for every human need, from health care to drinking water?" I'd rage to my wife.

"It's just the way things are," she said. "It's only a system."

My good wife often thinks I have slipped my moorings. But she never says right out loud that I'm crazy because, let's face it, honesty in marriage only goes so far. Furthermore, I'd be the first to proclaim that she's right.

I have slipped my moorings, and am downright ecstatic about it, given what the collective American consciousness is moored to these days. Anyway, I am, as I said, ecstatic. When I am not utterly depressed. Which is often. And always, always, always, it is because of the latest outrage pulled off by government/corporations -- the terms have been interchangeable for at least 50 years in this country, maybe longer. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141668/consciousness_capitalism%3A_corporations_are_now_after_our_very_beings/

and it has continued to the end-game of profit from illness, death and the frailty of age.

I shall say it once again... People are not a commodity. Corporations are not people.

Believe me, it's personal now... Not just business.

but he winds up ranting a bit much...some editing called for IMHO...