Today, our law and culture bestow our sovereignty on corporations. So do most of our own citizen organizations dedicated to justice and environmental protection and worker rights and human rights. Consequently, our organizations use their energy and resources to study each corporation as if it were unique, and to contest corporate acts one at a time, as if that could change the nature of corporations. Folks relentlessly tally corporate assaults, study the regulatory agencies and try to strengthen them. We try to make corporate toxic chemicals and corporate radiation and corporate energy and corporate banking and corporate agriculture and corporate transportation, corporate buying of elections, and corporate writing of legislation, and corporate education of our judges and corporate distorting of our schools, a little less bad.
People create what looks to be a nifty machine, a robot, called the corporation.
Over time the robots get together and overpower the people. They redesign themselves and reconstruct law and culture so that people fail to remember they created the robots in the first place, that the robots are machines and not alive. How odd that we have been so gullible, so docile, so obedient. We need to realize what power and authority we possess, and how we can use it to define the nature of corporations, so that we do not have to mobilize around each and every corporate decision that affects our communities, our lives, the planet. After all, organizations cannot be responsible.