As regular readers here know, I have a sort of love/hate relationship with the concept and practice of corporations. I laud the creative power behind collective efforts. Many hands make light work, as they say. At the same time, there has been an effort over the past few centuries to create “paper entities,” with rights and obligations much like a living human being in a society.
I have spent my entire career working in theatre, film and television. These art forms and media would be impossible without the coordinated integration of humans and machines to create a unique experience.
Theatre is an especially fascinating art form, in that the collective synchronization of numerous humans and advanced technology must operate flawlessly for 2 to 3 hours straight, with no ability to break and reset to try again.
Despite my love affair with collective art forms, the use of corporations as tools of social, economic and political manipulation to achieve mass population control through interlocking transnational corporate entities is deeply concerning.
We are well down the road to having artificial legal entities take over the functions of government, charities, regulatory agencies, and economic generators. In other words, they are replacing the classic nation-state with borderless organizations functioning similarly to mafia families, with both alliances and rivalries among competing entities.
In a casual conversation with an associate of mine the other day, I learned that Indonesia has launched a program with a 3- to 5-year horizon to place the country’s many State-Owned Enterprises (SEOs) under industry-specific holding companies. The holding companies would then be placed under a national “super” holding company in a fully integrated pyramidal structure.
Some readers may not be aware that many governments operate SEOs, in which the government is the only or majority shareholder. In Indonesia, the SEOs dominate key strategic economic sectors, such as energy, mining, transportation, and agriculture. In some cases, they are granted monopolies on certain industries, such as oil and gas, or electricity generation/distribution.
To my mind, the folding of multiple SEOs into a hierarchy of holding companies, where a single entity dominates the national economy is simply an effort to bring all aspects of society under corporate control. These national entities are then merged into what are known as Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs), such as EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS, and others.
The IGOs are further integrated with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which are currently formulating and dictating national policy in a great many nations, especially in the so-called “developing” world.
It’s but a bit of paperwork to bring all these entities under a central entity. The most likly candidate would be the UN, which itself is an IGO, but it could be any entity set up for that purpose.
Similar to the merging of governance and social entities are corporations like Vanguard and BlackRock, which have already established controlling interests in many of the world’s major holding companies. This effectively centralizes the economic aspect of civilization, so that the final move would be to simply merge the central IGO with, for lack of a better term, the Global Economic Organization (GEO).
Ultimately, with little more than a bunch of paperwork, we end up with a single global entity controlling every aspect of society. It would have different divisions — industrial, humanitarian, regulatory — but they would all report to and receive orders from a single controlling entity. The world would essentially become a global company store.
All the pieces already exist, and they are being merged in an ongoing effort to centralize everything.
The International Standards Organization (ISO) is the regulatory division. The World Health Organization (WHO) is the social and health care division. The World Bank is the de facto finance division. The United Nations (UN) is the governance and deliberative division — let’s think of it as the global Board of Directors.
Corporations around the world are being mandated to institute Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices. Hiring practices are dictated by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. Shareholders have been subsumed into “stakeholders,” which essentially puts corporations in the position of providing charitable social services — building schools, places of worship, hospitals, civil infrastructure — as part of their duty to “stakeholders”.
Entities like the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Open Society Foundations (OSFs) have unprecedented power to fund political campaigns and lobby for specific legislation that grants them ever more power to manipulate mass populations, within a legally authorized framework.
There is no room for an individual human being in all this. No one person could hope to have the political and financial resources to compete with global collectives. With global resources under centralized control, the individual human can be excommunicated with the tap of a button for stepping outside the boundaries of regulated propriety.
All of this exists now. This is not some wild conspiracy theory or mezcal-induced flight of fantasy. The target is to “flip the switch” by 2030, with full integration and 100% coverage by 2050. It has been in the works for centuries, and now the technology has advanced to the point that the final pieces can be activated.
If you find any of this repulsive or alarming, not to worry. We are anachronists and we will be gone sooner or later. The latest crop of Human Capital Economic Units (HCEU), also known as children, have been fully indoctrinated and infantilized. They will never know what it means to be an individual human being, with things like private property and rights.
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Absolutely perfect succinct depiction of the state of the state of Humanity or should we call it Transhumanism. It is and always has been a multilevel conspiracy. Never secret, just in the shadows. Warning after warning was ignored by the masses. Thankfully as anachronisms we no longer need to resist or tell others to resist. The possibility does not exist of defeating the inevitable, only prolonging it, as total control is always the goal of the power seekers. Embrace the SUCK. Welcome to a 'BRAVE, NEW WORLD'- described by Aldous Huxley. "Because information is so accessible and communication instantaneous, there is a diminution of focus on its significance, or even on the definition of what is significant. This dynamic may encourage policymakers to wait for an issue to arise rather than anticipate it, and to regard moments of decision as a series of isolated events rather than part of a historical continuum. When this happens, manipulation of information replaces reflection as the principal policy tool."-
Henry Kissinger, World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
As you observed, humans can achieve great things through group action. Our groups can be organized in many ways. Large projects require groups with a large membership. A corporation is a way to organize large groups cooperatively. So is a government.
It always puzzles me how anti-corporate diatribes fail to condemn government, which have all the flaws that they criticize in corporations, plus are based on force.
If I don't like a corporation, I don't have to use its services, I don't have to work for it, and I don't have to own its stock. With a government, if I don't obey its rules, pay its fees, and pay its taxes, I will be assaulted or killed. My only option is to try to move to a place with a different government, if they will let me. Then the problem repeats. Corporations are cooperative, governments are coercive.
Any monopoly requires the use of force, thus business monopolies require the support of government. The main problems with corporations arise when they are able to enlist government force. Thus, the problem is ultimately force, not corporations.
Also, the idea of a government or a corporation doing something is a superstition. "The U.S." did this, or "Monsanto" did that is a nonsense statement. All action is undertaken by individual human beings, even when the action is done or supported by many individuals at the same time. In the end, all of us will be judged for our actions.