2004-07-24
21st CENTURY FEUDALISM
v-- image source ©2004 | Tim Jessell
The Lords and Ladies of the Realm, albeit self-appointed, hide behind the fiefdoms established by Corporate dominance of the polity | This circumvents of intent of the USA Constitution, which was to establish a free republic with democratically elected representatives making decisions on the collective governance of the nations |
Can this egregious perversion of an equitable governance be corrected | Probably, but we cannot expect it to happen right away | After all, the change toward this now blatent power shift didn't occur overnight and was done under the watch of some who weren't fully equipped to address it at the time | The Changeover was slow and insidious, aided and abetted by paranoid anti-government types, self-righteous yet fractious politically correct types, and the determined conspiracy of folks intent on being in power at all costs |
I ought to be careful with the word "conspiracy" here, much of what was done to make a descent into and age of the neofeudal feifdoms we refer to as corporations was done right in full view | It took perhaps half a century, since the conclusion of World War II | Some of the most overt changes have been in the form of international trade treaties effectively ursurping the power for land-based nations |
The change back, ~perhaps actually a change in an entirely new direction, may take equally as long, maybe not | It requires a number of steps along the way | They will have to be sweeping and comprehensive, inter-related and deliberate |
The internet will help; it's already helping by expanding the communication abilities of people who've never had direct contact globally |
The call for corporate accountability must continue as must the legal wrangling take place that eliminates the sham that corporation continue pretending to be indviduals | They must come to the bargaining table as nations without discrete land masses as their base |
As such, this would mean that corporate executives and their advance men [that is, lobbyists] must register with the governments of land-based nations as foreign agents | This would limit their autonomy in the seats of governments, place them under closer scrutiny and make it more difficult to hide behind the facade of some nation-based patriotic jingo |
Some start points on the road towards corporate responsibility | Businesses for Social Responsibility | CalPERS Corporate Governance Links | Council for Ethics in Economics | Eye on Corporate America | Global Exchange | Natn'l Labor Cmte for Human & Worker Rights | Scott + Scott, LLC | US Dept of State Awards for Corporate Excellence | Model Legal Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights | Program on Law, Corporations + Democracy | Government Accountability Project
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v-- image source ©2004 | Tim Jessell
The Lords and Ladies of the Realm, albeit self-appointed, hide behind the fiefdoms established by Corporate dominance of the polity | This circumvents of intent of the USA Constitution, which was to establish a free republic with democratically elected representatives making decisions on the collective governance of the nations |
Can this egregious perversion of an equitable governance be corrected | Probably, but we cannot expect it to happen right away | After all, the change toward this now blatent power shift didn't occur overnight and was done under the watch of some who weren't fully equipped to address it at the time | The Changeover was slow and insidious, aided and abetted by paranoid anti-government types, self-righteous yet fractious politically correct types, and the determined conspiracy of folks intent on being in power at all costs |
I ought to be careful with the word "conspiracy" here, much of what was done to make a descent into and age of the neofeudal feifdoms we refer to as corporations was done right in full view | It took perhaps half a century, since the conclusion of World War II | Some of the most overt changes have been in the form of international trade treaties effectively ursurping the power for land-based nations |
The change back, ~perhaps actually a change in an entirely new direction, may take equally as long, maybe not | It requires a number of steps along the way | They will have to be sweeping and comprehensive, inter-related and deliberate |
The internet will help; it's already helping by expanding the communication abilities of people who've never had direct contact globally |
The call for corporate accountability must continue as must the legal wrangling take place that eliminates the sham that corporation continue pretending to be indviduals | They must come to the bargaining table as nations without discrete land masses as their base |
As such, this would mean that corporate executives and their advance men [that is, lobbyists] must register with the governments of land-based nations as foreign agents | This would limit their autonomy in the seats of governments, place them under closer scrutiny and make it more difficult to hide behind the facade of some nation-based patriotic jingo |
Some start points on the road towards corporate responsibility | Businesses for Social Responsibility | CalPERS Corporate Governance Links | Council for Ethics in Economics | Eye on Corporate America | Global Exchange | Natn'l Labor Cmte for Human & Worker Rights | Scott + Scott, LLC | US Dept of State Awards for Corporate Excellence | Model Legal Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights | Program on Law, Corporations + Democracy | Government Accountability Project
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