| | If you take corporations as being exemplars of capitalism then the underlying message here is that capitalism fosters mindlessness, lack of sovereignty, futility, and disassociation. The unspoken message is that some kind of anti-capitalism (some kind of collectivism) is required from mindfulness, sovereignty, feeling potent, and associating well with one's peers. Only if this oppositional alternative to capitalism is in place, only then, will we be fully human and fully happy (or fully capable of being happy). If capitalism is allowed to exist unchecked, mankind suffers.
This is the false foundation on which Michael Moore tries to build -- in order to line his pockets with cold, hard cash (from movie ticket sales, etc). Michael Moore goes out of his way to characterize libertarian people as knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers, mindlessly chasing profits while leaving a trail of bloody bodies in their wake.
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 6/13, 5:50pm)
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The goal for corporations is to maximize profit and market share. And they also have a goal for their target, namely the population. They have to be turned into completely mindless consumers of goods that they do not want. You have to develop what are called created wants. So you have to create wants. You have to impose on people what's called a philosophy of futility. You have to focus them on the insignificant things of life, like fashionable consumption. I'm just basically quoting business literature. And it makes perfect sense. The ideal is to have individuals who are totally disassociated from one another. Whose conception of themselves, the sense of value, is just: "How many created wants can I satisfy?"
