The students who were lucky enough to get the opportunity to hear from the habitually charismatic Cooper left his session with an abundance of knowledge on the relation ship between peace, justice and American c orporations. One hundred years ago peace and justice were thought of as two individual entities. Fifty years ago peace slowly began to take a back seat to justice. Today in the year 2001 we have finally begun to appreciate and accept just how closely related and equally important both of these issues are, and how they more or less rely on each other to work for the good of mankind. These same Americans, even with the knowledge that said corporations practice these injustices and in humanities, continue to financially support these businesses.
Every year there are at least a dozen international conferences on human rights.
However, at the conclusion of these costly gatherings of people who are supposedly experts in the field of human rights and related topics, all we are left with is a lot of useless paper work. Corporations are buying us before we know it. We are allowing the power to become centralized and controlled by an elite few, a direct contradiction of the democracy we as Americans pride ourselves on. We are allowing corporations, corrupt corporations, to monopolize and rule our lives. We are setting ourselves up for an atrocity by allowing this to happen, which indirectly results in the mixing of content and process, which are prerequisites to ultimate monopolization.