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Our Giants of Industry are Our Children
by Peter Player
"What are they, these giants of industry?
They stomp about our world, consuming everything in sight, buying everything, draining entire communities of life, polluting pretty much at will, and then move on. We protest, we do, to our elected representatives, and accomplish about as much doing so as we would have by slamming all our heads in our car doors in unison. “Sorry, folks,” we’re told, “we have to keep the campaign contributors happy.” We challenge the idea, in court, that money can’t unduly influence elections, and in the U.S. at least, a small majority of totally-unaccountable judges-for-life, who are apparently either corrupt or morons or both, decide that money can’t possibly corrupt elections.
Except in cases where it’s spent, of course. But that’s just quibbling over minor details, right?
But what are they? What are these massively-powerful, insanely-wealthy organizations that now rule our lives with iron fists, and who long ago discarded even the notion of wearing velvet gloves to soften the squeeze (velvet’s expensive – cuts into profits, you see).
They’re our children.
To have a little fun at the expense of people who..."
"What are they, these giants of industry?
They stomp about our world, consuming everything in sight, buying everything, draining entire communities of life, polluting pretty much at will, and then move on. We protest, we do, to our elected representatives, and accomplish about as much doing so as we would have by slamming all our heads in our car doors in unison. “Sorry, folks,” we’re told, “we have to keep the campaign contributors happy.” We challenge the idea, in court, that money can’t unduly influence elections, and in the U.S. at least, a small majority of totally-unaccountable judges-for-life, who are apparently either corrupt or morons or both, decide that money can’t possibly corrupt elections.
Except in cases where it’s spent, of course. But that’s just quibbling over minor details, right?
But what are they? What are these massively-powerful, insanely-wealthy organizations that now rule our lives with iron fists, and who long ago discarded even the notion of wearing velvet gloves to soften the squeeze (velvet’s expensive – cuts into profits, you see).
They’re our children.
To have a little fun at the expense of people who..."
the rest...
