> Here's my (admittedly whimsical) working hypothesis [...] The rot set in back in the 19th century, when the US legal system began recognizing corporations as

> Here's my (admittedly whimsical) working hypothesis [...] The rot set in back in the 19th century, when the US legal system began recognizing corporations as de facto people. [...] Corporations do not share our priorities. They are hive organisms constructed out of teeming workers who join or leave the collective: those who participate within it subordinate their goals to that of the collective, which pursues the three corporate objectives of growth, profitability, and pain avoidance. [...] Collectively, corporate groups lobby international trade treaty negotiations for operating conditions more conducive to pursuing their three goals [...] We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of non-human entities with non-human goals. [...] In short, we are living in the aftermath of an alien invasion. -- http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...