The Corporation
was the culprit. It is a documentary about American corporations and their role as plunderer in the world. My feeling when watching the documentary was a great "what can I do".
I was overwhelmed with the same feeling the other day as I was traveling on the People Mover in Detroit. I saw the giant skyscrapers built by multi-national corporations like GM and EDS. And the same feeling overwhelmed me then. These skyscrapers are maintained on the backs of workers making extremely terrible wages overseas. What can I do?
The documentary does not really give us an answer to that question.
In the movie, we see how corporations market, manufacture, and acquire the natural resources necessary for doing business. One of the most disturbing things is the way corporations dealt with the 14th amendment. Corporate lawyers used the amendment to give corporations the classification of "person" rather than just a corporate entity without individual rights. However, corporations do not bear responsibility for their actions like a person does. They have a special status where they have the rights of a person but not the responsibility.
It is definitely a documentary worth watching.
Watch out for the potholes.
