Douglas Rushkoff » Corporations as Uber-CitizensEven though they are artificial entities, with greater access to capital, infinite longevity, and no interest in or connection to humanity, we now guarantee corporations the right of free speech.
All this does is make centralized government even less relevant to our plight as human beings.
I’ve got more faith in our ability, as people, to rebuild our society and economy from the bottom up, without the participation or approval of a corporate-funded and corporate-driven central government. We can rebuild local economies based on the abundance of our labor and resources rather than the scarcity of centrally issued currency. We can rebuild local agriculture based on the quality of the topsoil, the features of the climate, and the nutritional needs of people rather than corn lobby laws. And we can rebuild our mechanisms for making meaning based on our shared hopes and values rather than those developed by PR firms to make us compete for false, individualistic goals.
In short, I say screw ‘em. Let’s do this ourselves.
