Re: New York Times on Scarcity

[Ted Winslow <egwinslow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

k hanly wrote:

> I thought the appropriate psychological orientation for success in
> capitalism was to be a psychopath. At least that is the hypothesis of
> the
> Corporation documentary.
>
> http://www.thetyee.ca/Entertainment/current/
> The+Corporation+Shrinking+the+Psychopath.htm
>
> By a quirk of legal fiction, our courts treat a corporation as if it
> were a
> person. Alas, that person is by design a psychopath, conclude a team
> of B.C.
> filmmakers who put the "dominant institution of our time" on the couch
> and
> apply to its behaviour the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
> Disorders.

The documentary makes this claim only about the corporation itself.  It
explicitly separates the corporation from the individuals who work in
it.  It has a segment in which Chomsky supports this distinction.

Ted