In other words, the major driving force in our society's development has perhaps become removed from human needs to corporate needs. They are the organisms which need to adapt fastest in order to survive and thrive, in a scary way, they are the dominant life force on the planet, and humans are becoming less and less so. We have created monsters, and our wills, desires and needs have become of secondary importance. We are perhaps only cogs in our own machine. History tells us that nothing is.
Democracy discourages control.
The very nature of democracy is that it is a free system, which develops to satisfy the dominant forces within society at any given time. The evolution of democracy is meant to be along the lines of what society wants and feels is important. I'm afraid that to me there is little doubt. A cursory examination of the banana war between the USA and Europe would tend to lead one to believe that certain sums of money given to the democrats may have influenced certain actions that followed. I believe the correct word for this is bribery, but in the current democratic model it is just a donation.