last installment of The Corporation

God, I feel so much better after a cup of coffee…

I watched the last of the 3 parts that SBS showed The Corporation in last night. It was kind of pissing me off the way it was all about advocating for government regulation. I’m all for intrusive governments for the good of humanity and the earth, but the way to change the corporate world is not by a minority bunch of people holding protests and town meetings and running petitions and lobbying the government.

The way to change the corporate world is by not buying things from corporations. It’s that easy and that difficult.

Rather than getting a town meeting together to discuss the evils of local corporate headquarters and blowing steam and talking, talking, talking, it makes much more sense to me to get a town meeting together to institute a local market where everyone brings something they’ve grown, made or produced themselves for sale and trade. It’s all nice to go on about the power of the people, but until the people actually want to take responsibility for their world and their environment and accept that means having less stuff, nothing’s going to change. We’ll just keep buying

from corporations.

Picking up the mags today. Now they are a month late. And I’m completely unenthusiastic at this point. In fact, I’m scared to see them. I think there will be a lot of mistakes…

Rachel