The thesis of my thesis
I have a couple articles and presentations prepared on ‘non-biological’ entities and the threat they pose to biological entities such as animals and humans.
It boils down to the fact that corporations are mindless entities, like amoeba, yet they are granted the same rights and status as humans according to the constitution of the united states of america. the other disconnect that causes major harm is that non-biological entities do not have the same necessities as humans in order to survive and propagate.
It’s not that their agenda is to remake America. They don’t have an agenda like a person would have an agenda. Their purpose is to propagate and continue surviving just like biological entities. But they evolve according to different rules from regular evolution.
Non-biological entities do not need clean food, air or water to survive. What they *do* need to survive and propagate is money. Sometimes they need other resources such as human labor capital, land and water. They must re-purpose the land and air in order to produce waste. They must re-purpose the water in order to produce heat waste or chemical waste.
This is what causes the major disconnect and where our environments and needs start to overlap. If a biological entity has no need or desire for money, a non-biological entity will not survive. Our need for clean food, air and water limits the growth of a corporation. In America, a corporation’s sole purpose is to increase profits each quarter. Everything else is ancillary to this purpose.
As a result, although not sentient by any means, non-biological entities have influenced human psychological evolution by changing what we desire. We no longer value clean food, air and water above all else. Sometimes valuing these things are viewed with contempt and derision. If you’ve followed my point so far, you’ll be able to see where the rest of this is going.
I didn’t read the original post, but I wonder if he was discussing some of the same things, just from a different perspective.
I do, however, have a controversial point of view concerning what must happen with non-biological entities.
If we are to survive and propagate as a species beyond another ten-thousand years. If we want to exist beyond the natural physical limitations our planet and our galaxy has imposed upon us, we need to learn how to co-exist with non-biological entities and find a way that we can exist harmoniously. The reason I believe this is that *because* corporations were granted constitutional rights, America shot forward into the future faster than any natural evolution could afford.
I’m not saying this is the only event that sped along progress, but it is definitely a major contributor. Since Abraham Lincoln’s time (and the passing of the 14th amendment) corporations have allowed us to exponentially increase our knowledge, our awareness, our technology, etc.
So I propose that we live in a very exciting age and time. We are on the cusp of conquering and surpassing physical limitations of any kind. We just need to be more aware and proactive in guiding this process because if we allow a non-sentient, non-biological, non-conscious entity to control the fate of human evolution, it will lead to self-destruction not only of corporations but of the human species as well.
Addendum:
I’m going to share a somewhat controversial view and it is to be taken with a grain of salt:
A population of critical thinkers is not a pipe-dream if we no longer allow unfettered access to procreation to the idiots and the imbeciles ;) Before the modern age, idiocy was weeded out through the process of natural selection.
Now we live in an artificial environment where ‘he who is most offended’ or ‘he who has the least’ does, in fact, receive the most protection and the most rights at the expense of those who ‘have more’. Therefore, the illiterate breed more and are a protected class who support the rights and rise of non-biological entities whereas literates and critical thinkers are seen as a threat to both non-biological entities and the illiterate class (which is the most valuable human capital to a non-biological entity). Because they are seen as a threat, critical thinkers are often attacked either directly through physical confrontation or through psychological information warfare where they are inundated with information overload from media.
I’ve been bitching and ranting about ‘corporate personhood’ since 1999 but until recently, (mostly because I’ve been immature and not had the ability to articulate the need for attention in this area) most people have responded to the idea as if it were paranoia or crazy talk.
The best way to prepare for the future is to become a critical thinker and learn the ability to process information quickly and efficiently. The uphill battle is when corporations realize that a human labor capital (not just labor, but consumers, too) with critical thinking skills reduces profit. This pseudo anti-intellectualism is then passed along to its workforce and consumer-force in order to increase profits.
Their need for money above all things is created through new philosophies and religions and any other form of thought propagation there is. With critical thinking skills, one can identify the source of their world-view and figure out if they are supporting life or if they are supporting non-life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0zYag85zA
A comment from my friend:
Tom Moki Gallagher So when you can’t change your external reality, all you can do is learn to not need them as much as possible. Radical self reliance.
and my retort:
Radical Self Reliance will not work in an environment without clean food, water and air sources. Unless we have the technology with which to modify ourselves or those sources so that we can consume them. My stance is that Radical Self Reliance is not an environment where technology can thrive. It can exist, sure, but I do not see the reality of one single person coming up with all the ideas he needs in order to survive. The ideas come from all over. I also do not see the viability of one single person being able to manufacture said technology. It takes hundreds of people, if not thousands, to create, implement and manufacture many basic tools necessary for survival in the modern age. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe we can live aside from a world controlled by corporations and not be affected by their destruction of our resources, but I doubt it.
:-p
D. Michael Martindale: “Since corporations are legally considered persons, why can’t they be held accountable for damage they do whether they care about it or not, just like real people are?”
D. Michael – that’s part of the disconnect. Once we can all be aware of non-biological entities and how they affect our lives, we can start discussing ways to hold them accountable. Part of the reason we can’t hold them accountable right now is because they are not sentient and they are malleable. It does not matter how many times you replace the board of directors or the CEO or the people who run the company, it will continue to exist and operate regardless and according to the bottom line, which is increasing profits each quarter no matter the cost.
The only way to make a corporation react to any stimulus is to mess with its money. Any other threat and it will not take an active enough interest in its self-survival and propagation.
The problem we have today, however, is that we only occasionally fine them. These fines are so low and inconsequential that a corporation actually increases their profit by blatantly breaking the law because they are rewarded with more money than the fine actually cost in the first place. Thus enabling a vicious cycle of unethical behavior. Even class action lawsuits do little to simulate an appropriate response from such an entity.
cool. interesting points. unfortunately i don’t see anyway to make any change here since the non-bios have already grown non-carbon-based roots into the earth. we need a non-partisan leader to slowly shift this giant into a manageable good for society, that or superman.
http://storyofstuff.org/citizensunited/