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December 04, 2005
Diagnosing the feds
One of last year's mega-hits with the Bush haters was a documentary called, "The Corporation." It was a hit because it embodied one of the themes today's liberals love: that big business subjugates hard-working Americans and is otherwise contributing to decay and demise, etc. The film's driving theme was that corporations, juridical "persons" under the law, have the "personality" of a psychopath. It was also an opportunity for people who hated George Bush to go to a movie theater and find more reasons to hate George Bush, which seemed to be driving most of last year's creative thought among documentary filmmakers.
One problem with The Corporation's approach is that it makes too much of corporations' "personhood" under the law. That personhood gives corporations legal identity - beyond that they're run by people, not a collective conscience. The film's theory that corporations compel decent folk to do awful things to one another is a simply-minded one(especially so, I'd have thought, to John Kerry nuance crowd) is its escape hatch, one that I didn't think was quite proven.
Anyway, around the time The Corporation was released a Bush-hating co-worker of mine told me about the "psychopath" theme and snickered at me and my pro-business values. I replied by asking her whether there'd ever been a documentary diagnosing the personality of the federal government. After all, if we're talking in the collective, wouldn't the federal government have some "personality" too? I didn't get a response.
I was thinking about all of this when I read about the NY Daily News report about how our government pissed away millions of post-9/11 rebuilding funds which, after all, is our money. Corruption and pork seemed to have devoured them. It's a shame, I guess, but is anyone really surprised? Maybe someone will make a documentary. Then again, I doubt it.
Posted by bill at December 4, 2005 11:23 AM
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