Tuesday September 4 – Corporatized

Tuesday September 4 – Corporatized


A corporation is an artificial entity created as a collective expression of the desires and purposes of a group of individual persons. It may be either for profit (to make money) or non-profit (for philanthropic purposes). The corporation is granted the same rights and privileges as an individual human being, but not being a human being, but rather a collective of a group, it does not have a soul or personal conscience. It is treated as an artificial “person” or “being” As such, persons and officials associated with the corporation may not be held responsible for the actions of the corporation, and the corporation itself liable only to what the courts may determine is fair financial compensation. Thus, a corporation may not be held accountable to the law and its penalties to the same degree as an individual citizen.

Too often, non-profit corporations are only such in name, and the corporate structure and polity so set up as to hide the real profit making intent and purpose of the corporation. This has become a legal loop hole for many such religious institutions.

And the corporation, without soul or conscience, is able to play on the good intents and minds of its supporters, spinning its image through public relations devises and charlatan antics that rival the most sophisticated Madison Avenue advertising gimmicks.

And we buy it as the truth. Sold a bill of goods not worth the paper or air it takes to speak of it.

But it seems so real, the illusion that is. And we rationalize “Better the illusion I can see, than the reality I have yet to discern”. And we content ourselves in the ignorance we “know”, ever fearful to venture beyond our limited perceptions,. That might mean that something has to change, and change is uncertain. So we take pleasure in the thought that the corporation, our religion, and our government have it all together and figured out. And the fact is, they do. And they have you just where they want you.