"THE PATH TO 9/11"

The movie, the events of 911, and the uses the Bush Administration have made of those events illustrates the extent to which America has become a Corporatocracy.

The qualities of the corporation have become the qualities of government.

The issue is not the Republicans, and it is also not the Democrats. The issue is not Iger or Eisner. These parties and these people have succumbed to the ideals and operating principles of the corporation.

All the commentators act as if persons should experience shame or guilt at their atrocious lying. If these were persons and not corporate lickspittles, we might reasonably expect admissions of responsibility and displays of shame. You will not ever see Cheney's face redden with the shame-display or his eyes look down and his shoulders hunch.

"The Path to 9/11" and the events it was based on illustrate principles of corporatism. Only individuals who are true human beings can feel shame. The elegance of the corporation and its relative the bureaucracy is that they create a fictional entity that does not feel disgust, shame, or guilt. When Cheney speaks for the Corporatocracy he feels no revulsion over his role in murdering tens of thousands of human beings.

I urge you commentators to widen your perspective. Democrats won't help the nation, because Democrats (Lamont is a perfect example) are Corporatocrats. I want a political party that celebrates people, not corporations. Our Constitution says only human beings have inalienable rights, not corporations and bureaucracies. Among the rights of human beings are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." These rights have been seized by corporations, and they're being denied to us human beings.

Confusion About What's Become of America

Many people seem confused about what has happened to democracy in America. Conservatives do not question the progression of our country toward corporatocracy. Although they do not understand the progression, they accept it, because it is consonant with their values. Radicals, liberals, and the left appear to believe that we continue to live in a Jeffersonian Democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Liberals and the Left have not grasped the fundamental alteration in the organization of the nation. We no longer live in a Democracy. We live in a Corporatocracy. In a Democracy, individual citizens matter. In a Corporatocracy, they do not matter. On the Left, people descry the loss of freedoms, intrusion by the government, economic inequality, lack of health care, and destruction of the environment. In a Corporatocracy, it is expected that only corporations and bureaucracies will have freedom of action and freedom of expression. In a Corporatocracy, only the economic health of corporations matters. "Health care" is a marketing scam designed by the cadres of the Corporatocracy to secure the largest amount of profit for the least amount of expenditure. Corporations destroy environments, because they do not require a healthy environment to sustain themselves as humans do.

For example, Liberals and the Left continue to ask the system to provide universal health care and environmental protection. They fail to understand that a Corporatocracy exists to promote the livelihood of corporations and bureaucracies, not human beings. There are now so many human beings in America -- nearly 300 million -- that replacements can be found at any level. The search for a cure for AIDS, for example, is motivated by Big Pharm's desire to increase its profits, not by any concern for people dying of the disease. As the Corporatocracy has metastasized, it has taken over the EPA and replaced laws that once were intended to protect citizens and the fragile biosphere of which we are a part. The new directives that have supplanted laws are designed to assure the health of corporations and bureaucracies. For example, increasing the limits for arsenic in the water supply promotes the health of corporations because they do not have to alter their practices, which would cost them money.

In the future, I will post regular essays laying out a theoretical critique of the Corporatocracy. I will also describe the forces that have shaped its evolution. I invite comments. I will also analyze current events from the perspective of the theory of the Corporatocracy. Periodically, I will post essays describing what citizens must do to dismantle the Corporatocracy and to redesign the nation so it meets the needs of citizens. Along the way I will advance the cause of The Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Party. You will read essays on overpopulation, machinificaton, what it means to be human, immigration, religion as a tool of the Corporatocracy, and other topics that will change how you think about America and the world we live in.