The Corporation (trailer and movie)

[Turborama]

Run time: 01:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa3wyaEe9vE   Posted on YouTube: November 24, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 31, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 976

 
(edited by request of op for a typo in the subject line-proud patriot Moderator Democratic Underground)

Even though it's a few years old, it seems even more relevant considering the news we've been hearing lately...

Synopsis

Among the 40 interview subjects are CEOs and top-level executives from a range of industries: oil, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, manufacturing, public relations, branding, advertising and undercover marketing; in addition, a Nobel-prize winning economist, the first management guru, a corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers are also interviewed.

A LEGAL "PERSON"

In the mid-1800s the corporation emerged as a legal "person." Imbued with a "personality" of pure self-interest, the next 100 years saw the corporation's rise to dominance. The corporation created unprecedented wealth but at what cost? The remorseless rationale of "externalities" (as Milton Friedman explains, the unintended consequences of a transaction between two parties on a third) is responsible for countless cases of illness, death, poverty, pollution, exploitation and lies.

THE PATHOLOGY OF COMMERCE: CASE HISTORIES

To assess the "personality" of the corporate "person," a checklist is employed, using diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. The operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anti-social "personality": it is self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful; it breaches social and legal standards to get its way; it does not suffer from guilt, yet it can mimic the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. Four case studies, drawn from a universe of corporate activity, clearly demonstrate harm to workers, human health, animals and the biosphere. Concluding this point-by-point analysis, a disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a "psychopath."

http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=312">Continued

From YouTube

THE CORPORATION <1/23> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y">What is a Corporation?

Playlist: The Corporation http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87">(complete, chapters 1 to 23)

From Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3969792790081230711">Part 1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7365345393244917682&hl=en">Part 2

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=192012118972057552&hl=en">Full movie but missing 1st few minutes

Torrent From Mininova

http://www.mininova.org/det/2010865">1.37 gigabyte in 2 files

[Azooz]

1. K & R

[Donnachaidh]

2. people need to watch this to see how the 14th amendment was abused

by corporate powers. K&R

[CrispyQ]

3. I've watched this movie twice.

Everyone should see it.

[Turborama]

4. Shameless...

:kick:

[Turborama]

5. & another

:kick:

[ihavenobias]

6. K & R. I own it on DVD.

And I just watched Taxi To The Darkside the other night which is another must watch.

[Turborama]

7. Of course...

... http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=10">Buying the DVD is the most "http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=318">creative team friendly" way of getting it, too.


Thanks for the heads up on Taxi To The Darkside. I'm going to check it out now...