[acb-hsp] Why Corporations Are Psychotic By David Niose

Claude Everett ceverett at dslextreme.com
Mon Sep 3 15:17:01 EDT 2012


Then there ought to be a law against such hypocrisy.   That is why all real
true Americans should let their elected officials in Washington, know  that
there needs to be a constitutional amendment that prohibits Corporations
from being acknowledged as real persons.


Regards,
Claude Everett
"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does
absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions
of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their
lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." 
Eugene Victor Debs  
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Peter Altschul
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Yes, but
Most of us think those legal decisions are foolish. 



Pete
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Peter, legally they are real persons. 


Regards,
Claude Everett
"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does
absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions
of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their
lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." 
Eugene Victor Debs
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peter altschul
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Subject: Re: [acb-hsp] Why Corporations Are Psychotic By David Niose

Hi:

I have seen articles like this in my work in the organization development
field.  While I freely admit to feeling vindictive pleasure when some
corporations are labeled as "psychotic," 
"bipolar," or whatever, I have a problem when such labels are thrown around;
for one thing, corporations are not people.

Best, Peter



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>Subject: [acb-hsp] Why Corporations Are Psychotic By David Niose

>I don't know how or why I missed this insightful article over a
year ago.
> are corporations Psychotic? should they be "people"?
>http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201...  
79
>comments share login
>Why Corporations Are Psychotic

>Created Mar 16 2011 - 6:38am
>Senator Bernie Sanders echoed the sentiments of many last week
when he
>called for a constitutional amendment to repeal the notion of
corporate
>personhood.  This issue jumped into public consciousness last
year after the
>Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, effectively
allowed
>unrestrained corporate influence in American politics, based
partially on
>the idea that corporations are legally "persons" with
constitutional rights.
>Sanders, in calling for the constitutional amendment, declared: 
"This is an
>enormously important issue, and how it is resolved will
determine, to a
>significant degree, the future of American democracy."

>What is it about corporate personhood that so concerns Sanders
and many
>others? That question could be answered many ways, but perhaps
this is most
>concise: Corporations are psychotic.

>If corporations are indeed "persons," their mental condition can
accurately
>be described as pathological.  Corporations have no innate moral
impulses,
>and in fact they exist solely for the purpose of making money.  
As such,
>these "persons" are systemically driven to do whatever is
necessary to
>increase revenues and profits, with no regard for ethical issues
that might
>nag real people.

>But, you say, corporations are owned and managed by real people,
so surely
>immoral corporate actions might be inhibited by them? Well, not
really.
>First of all, the officers and directors who run corporations are
actually
>duty-bound to act in the corporation's best financial interest,
and that
>means they are obliged to do whatever they can within the law to
make money.
>Thus, this fiduciary duty requires corporate management to set
aside ethical
>niceties when they get in the way of corporate profits.  This is
why tobacco
>companies market their products to kids when they can - only laws 
>prohibiting such conduct will keep them from doing so.


>This is especially true when we are dealing with large, publicly
traded
>corporations.  Whereas a small corporation could have local
ownership,
>management, and community roots that might resist the drive for
profit in
>certain situations, publicly traded corporations almost always
answer to
>institutional investors and have tremendous pressure to produce
short-term
>profits.  The management chain in a publicly traded corporation
is
>necessarily geared for profit, not ethics.

>Thus, the entity is a "person" with a totally self-absorbed
psyche, a
>narcissistic "person" that has enormous resources to advertise
and market
>itself to the public, to hire professionals of all types to
influence public
>opinion, to litigate and lobby as needed, to ruthlessly pursue
its goal of
>revenue and profit, and to join other corporations and industry
associations
>in crushing any opposition posed by mere individuals or public
interest
>groups.

>But hasn't it always been this way? Isn't that what capitalism is
all about
>- corporate interests driving the economy?

>Actually, no.  Corporate libertarians would have you believe that
somehow
>corporate dominance is entirely consistent with the values and
vision of the
>Founding Fathers, but this is pure myth.  The framers believed in
limited
>government and free markets, but corporations were almost
non-existent in
>the early days of the Republic.  Unlike today, one could not form
a
>corporation simply by filing a few papers with a government
office; instead,
>permission from the government was needed (usually via an act of
the
>Legislature) and was granted only upon a showing that the
proposed
>corporation would be in the public interest.  When corporate
formation was
>allowed, strict terms and limitations were demanded.

>Corporate formation was viewed skeptically in those days because 
>corporations were correctly recognized as dangerous.  Unlike sole 
>proprietorships or partnerships, corporations allow investors to
pool huge
>sums of capital and pursue profits while remaining immune from
personal
>liability.  Thus, if I own shares of XYZ Corporation and the
company breaches
>a $10 million contract obligation, there is no chance that I will
be
>personally liable on the contract.  If I own a sole
proprietorship or
>partnership that breaches such a contract, my personal assets are
at risk.

>This immunity makes the corporate structure extremely attractive
to
>investors, even absentee investors, which means publicly traded
corporations
>can attract enormous amounts of capital, which in turn results in
their
>wielding great economic power.  In modern society where
corporations are
>widespread and commonplace, this economic power enables them to
have great
>social and cultural influence, defining to a large degree how we
live our
>lives and even the values we hold as a society.  And of course
economic power
>easily translates to political power as well.

>It wasn't until the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, long
after the
>framers were dead, that corporate interests began to reshape the
social,
>legal, and political environment so that their interests became
paramount,
>far more important to politicians than the interests of ordinary
citizens.
>Corporate personhood was a key part of this scheme.

>Thus, while corporate libertarians are quick to point out that
the framers
>and other intellectuals of the founding era were wary of
excessive
>governmental power, they conveniently neglect to mention that
concentrated
>corporate power was also viewed skeptically.  In fact, Adam
Smith, whose
>"Wealth of Nations" is often cited by corporate apologists as
validating
>"free markets," warned against unrestrained, concentrated
corporate power
>and instead encouraged small-scale, local economic activity.  
Published in
>1776, "Wealth of Nations" predates the rise of corporate power,
and
>suggestions by corporate libertarians that the book somehow
supports the
>notion of corporate dominance are either mistaken or outright
dishonest.

>It's worth noting that libertarians have no right to claim that a
>laissez-faire environment would allow unregulated corporate 
power.  Since
>corporations themselves are a fictitious creation of government, 
a true
>libertarian environment (with minimal government) would find them
>unnecessary and somewhat repugnant.  Thus, ironically, at their 
essence
>corporations are a creation of government meddling.

>The pathological and narcissistic nature of corporate "persons" 
is reason
>enough to deny them fundamental constitutional rights that should 
be
>reserved for flesh-and-bone persons, but the fact that they also 
wield
>economic resources far in excess of those available to real 
persons
>magnifies the need to restrain them.  Author David C.  Korten 
calls the claim
>by corporations for constitutional rights equal to those of 
humans a "legal
>perversion," saying that "corporations should obey the laws 
decided by the
>citizenry, not write those laws."

>Korten's statement alludes to why this issue is so critical to 
effective
>democracy.  Because corporate interests have immense resources 
that enable
>them to participate in lobbying and litigation, they effectively 
control the
>governmental machine.  If individual citizens today feel 
powerless and
>cynical about politics and government, who can blame them? 
Participatory
>democracy is not alive and well in America, because pathological 
corporate
>interests have complete control of the system.  This is why 
Sanders's
>declaration, that the future of American democracy may rely on 
the outcome
>of this issue, is not an overstatement.  What kind of "persons" 
will control
>democracy - corporate or human?

>The Tea Party and Corporate Power
>The call by Sanders for a constitutional amendment cries out for 
popular
>support, and any mention of populism nowadays calls to mind the 
Tea Party.
>Progressives tend to dismiss Tea Party activists as ignorant 
and/or deluded,
>but we should realize that the Tea Party has a few (very few) 
valid points.
>At a minimum, the Tea Party is correct in saying that American 
democracy
>today would be unrecognizable to the framers.

>In their speculation of what the framers would think about 
today's America,
>however, Tea Party activists make the mistake of not considering 
the
>question fully.  They focus almost exclusively on the singular 
issue of
>downsizing government, completely ignoring other aspects of 
modern America
>that would grab the framers' attention.  Surely, if Adams, 
Jefferson and
>Madison could be magically transplanted to modern America, their 
actual
>assessment of society would be much more comprehensive than 
critiquing the
>tax system and size of government.

>For example, surely the aspect of modern society that would first 
preoccupy
>the framers would be our advanced technology, not our 
governmental
>structure.  Only after marveling for days or weeks about modern 
technology,
>from flying in airplanes to sending emails, would the framers' 
attention
>eventually turn to government.  Then, of course, in analyzing 
government,
>they would certainly assess its expanded role in the proper 
context, in
>light of today's much more complex technological, economic, and 
social
>realities.

>Would they feel that government has gotten too big? Perhaps - 
especially the
>military.  But it's just as likely that they would conclude that 
much
>government expansion - the FDA, the FCC, the FAA, the EPA, Social 
Security,
>etc.  - are logical results of technological and social 
development.  Of
>course, all we can do is speculate.

>But what the Tea Party ignores is that the framers would surely 
be aghast at
>the enormous power that Americans have ceded to private corporate
>institutions.  The time-traveling framers would most likely 
assess American
>democracy as being ineffective and Americans themselves as being 
largely
>uninformed, passive, distracted by petty consumption, and 
incapable of
>critical thinking.  They would see American politics and society 
as overtaken
>by corporate interests that dictate public and social policy to 
the private
>citizenry.

>If only the Tea Party could see beyond its simple "limited 
government"
>mantra to consider such matters, its populist energy and 
enthusiasm might be
>put to good use in challenging the corporate "persons" who own 
and control
>American democracy and society.  By fully considering their own 
hypothetical,
>Tea Party activists would find a new outlet for their angst.

>You can bet Sanders will be met with much opposition in his call 
for a
>constitutional amendment.  Much of that opposition will have 
roots, overtly
>or covertly, in the corporate establishment that he seeks to 
tame.  Time will
>tell which type of "persons" - human or corporate - win this 
struggle.



>Text copyright 2011 Dave Niose

>FURTHER READING ON CORPORATE PERSONHOOD:

>Joel Bakan: The Corporation - The Pathological Pursuit of Profit 
and Power

>David C.  Korten: When Corporations Rule the World


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> are corporations Psychotic? should they be "people"?
>http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201...  
79
>comments share login
>Regards,
>Why Corporations Are Psychotic
>By David Niose
>Created Mar 16 2011 - 6:38am
>Senator Bernie Sanders echoed the sentiments of many last week 
when he
>called for a constitutional amendment to repeal the notion of 
corporate
>personhood.  This issue jumped into public consciousness last 
year after the
>Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, effectively 
allowed
>unrestrained corporate influence in American politics, based 
partially on
>the idea that corporations are legally "persons" with 
constitutional rights.
>Sanders, in calling for the constitutional amendment, declared: 
"This is an
>enormously important issue, and how it is resolved will 
determine, to a
>significant degree, the future of American democracy."

>What is it about corporate personhood that so concerns Sanders 
and many
>others? That question could be answered many ways, but perhaps 
this is most
>concise: Corporations are psychotic.

>If corporations are indeed "persons," their mental condition can 
accurately
>be described as pathological.  Corporations have no innate moral 
impulses,
>and in fact they exist solely for the purpose of making money.  
As such,
>these "persons" are systemically driven to do whatever is 
necessary to
>increase revenues and profits, with no regard for ethical issues 
that might
>nag real people.

>But, you say, corporations are owned and managed by real people, 
so surely
>immoral corporate actions might be inhibited by them? Well, not 
really.
>First of all, the officers and directors who run corporations are 
actually
>duty-bound to act in the corporation's best financial interest, 
and that
>means they are obliged to do whatever they can within the law to 
make money.
>Thus, this fiduciary duty requires corporate management to set 
aside ethical
>niceties when they get in the way of corporate profits.  This is 
why tobacco
>companies market their products to kids when they can - only laws
>prohibiting such conduct will keep them from doing so.


>This is especially true when we are dealing with large, publicly 
traded
>corporations.  Whereas a small corporation could have local 
ownership,
>management, and community roots that might resist the drive for 
profit in
>certain situations, publicly traded corporations almost always 
answer to
>institutional investors and have tremendous pressure to produce 
short-term
>profits.  The management chain in a publicly traded corporation 
is
>necessarily geared for profit, not ethics.

>Thus, the entity is a "person" with a totally self-absorbed 
psyche, a
>narcissistic "person" that has enormous resources to advertise 
and market
>itself to the public, to hire professionals of all types to 
influence public
>opinion, to litigate and lobby as needed, to ruthlessly pursue 
its goal of
>revenue and profit, and to join other corporations and industry 
associations
>in crushing any opposition posed by mere individuals or public 
interest
>groups.

>But hasn't it always been this way? Isn't that what capitalism is 
all about
>- corporate interests driving the economy?

>Actually, no.  Corporate libertarians would have you believe that 
somehow
>corporate dominance is entirely consistent with the values and 
vision of the
>Founding Fathers, but this is pure myth.  The framers believed in 
limited
>government and free markets, but corporations were almost 
non-existent in
>the early days of the Republic.  Unlike today, one could not form 
a
>corporation simply by filing a few papers with a government 
office; instead,
>permission from the government was needed (usually via an act of 
the
>Legislature) and was granted only upon a showing that the 
proposed
>corporation would be in the public interest.  When corporate 
formation was
>allowed, strict terms and limitations were demanded.

>Corporate formation was viewed skeptically in those days because
>corporations were correctly recognized as dangerous.  Unlike sole
>proprietorships or partnerships, corporations allow investors to 
pool huge
>sums of capital and pursue profits while remaining immune from 
personal
>liability.  Thus, if I own shares of XYZ Corporation and the 
company breaches
>a $10 million contract obligation, there is no chance that I will 
be
>personally liable on the contract.  If I own a sole 
proprietorship or
>partnership that breaches such a contract, my personal assets are 
at risk.

>This immunity makes the corporate structure extremely attractive 
to
>investors, even absentee investors, which means publicly traded 
corporations
>can attract enormous amounts of capital, which in turn results in 
their
>wielding great economic power.  In modern society where 
corporations are
>widespread and commonplace, this economic power enables them to 
have great
>social and cultural influence, defining to a large degree how we 
live our
>lives and even the values we hold as a society.  And of course 
economic power
>easily translates to political power as well.

>It wasn't until the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, long 
after the
>framers were dead, that corporate interests began to reshape the 
social,
>legal, and political environment so that their interests became 
paramount,
>far more important to politicians than the interests of ordinary 
citizens.
>Corporate personhood was a key part of this scheme.

>Thus, while corporate libertarians are quick to point out that 
the framers
>and other intellectuals of the founding era were wary of 
excessive
>governmental power, they conveniently neglect to mention that 
concentrated
>corporate power was also viewed skeptically.  In fact, Adam 
Smith, whose
>"Wealth of Nations" is often cited by corporate apologists as 
validating
>"free markets," warned against unrestrained, concentrated 
corporate power
>and instead encouraged small-scale, local economic activity.  
Published in
>1776, "Wealth of Nations" predates the rise of corporate power, 
and
>suggestions by corporate libertarians that the book somehow 
supports the
>notion of corporate dominance are either mistaken or outright 
dishonest.

>It's worth noting that libertarians have no right to claim that a
>laissez-faire environment would allow unregulated corporate 
power.  Since
>corporations themselves are a fictitious creation of government, 
a true
>libertarian environment (with minimal government) would find them
>unnecessary and somewhat repugnant.  Thus, ironically, at their 
essence
>corporations are a creation of government meddling.

>The pathological and narcissistic nature of corporate "persons" 
is reason
>enough to deny them fundamental constitutional rights that should 
be
>reserved for flesh-and-bone persons, but the fact that they also 
wield
>economic resources far in excess of those available to real 
persons
>magnifies the need to restrain them.  Author David C.  Korten 
calls the claim
>by corporations for constitutional rights equal to those of 
humans a "legal
>perversion," saying that "corporations should obey the laws 
decided by the
>citizenry, not write those laws."

>Korten's statement alludes to why this issue is so critical to 
effective
>democracy.  Because corporate interests have immense resources 
that enable
>them to participate in lobbying and litigation, they effectively 
control the
>governmental machine.  If individual citizens today feel 
powerless and
>cynical about politics and government, who can blame them? 
Participatory
>democracy is not alive and well in America, because pathological 
corporate
>interests have complete control of the system.  This is why 
Sanders's
>declaration, that the future of American democracy may rely on 
the outcome
>of this issue, is not an overstatement.  What kind of "persons" 
will control
>democracy - corporate or human?

>The Tea Party and Corporate Power
>The call by Sanders for a constitutional amendment cries out for 
popular
>support, and any mention of populism nowadays calls to mind the 
Tea Party.
>Progressives tend to dismiss Tea Party activists as ignorant 
and/or deluded,
>but we should realize that the Tea Party has a few (very few) 
valid points.
>At a minimum, the Tea Party is correct in saying that American 
democracy
>today would be unrecognizable to the framers.

>In their speculation of what the framers would think about 
today's America,
>however, Tea Party activists make the mistake of not considering 
the
>question fully.  They focus almost exclusively on the singular 
issue of
>downsizing government, completely ignoring other aspects of 
modern America
>that would grab the framers' attention.  Surely, if Adams, 
Jefferson and
>Madison could be magically transplanted to modern America, their 
actual
>assessment of society would be much more comprehensive than 
critiquing the
>tax system and size of government.

>For example, surely the aspect of modern society that would first 
preoccupy
>the framers would be our advanced technology, not our 
governmental
>structure.  Only after marveling for days or weeks about modern 
technology,
>from flying in airplanes to sending emails, would the framers' 
attention
>eventually turn to government.  Then, of course, in analyzing 
government,
>they would certainly assess its expanded role in the proper 
context, in
>light of today's much more complex technological, economic, and 
social
>realities.

>Would they feel that government has gotten too big? Perhaps - 
especially the
>military.  But it's just as likely that they would conclude that 
much
>government expansion - the FDA, the FCC, the FAA, the EPA, Social 
Security,
>etc.  - are logical results of technological and social 
development.  Of
>course, all we can do is speculate.

>But what the Tea Party ignores is that the framers would surely 
be aghast at
>the enormous power that Americans have ceded to private corporate
>institutions.  The time-traveling framers would most likely 
assess American
>democracy as being ineffective and Americans themselves as being 
largely
>uninformed, passive, distracted by petty consumption, and 
incapable of
>critical thinking.  They would see American politics and society 
as overtaken
>by corporate interests that dictate public and social policy to 
the private
>citizenry.

>If only the Tea Party could see beyond its simple "limited 
government"
>mantra to consider such matters, its populist energy and 
enthusiasm might be
>put to good use in challenging the corporate "persons" who own 
and control
>American democracy and society.  By fully considering their own 
hypothetical,
>Tea Party activists would find a new outlet for their angst.

>You can bet Sanders will be met with much opposition in his call 
for a
>constitutional amendment.  Much of that opposition will have 
roots, overtly
>or covertly, in the corporate establishment that he seeks to 
tame.  Time will
>tell which type of "persons" - human or corporate - win this 
struggle.



>Text copyright 2011 Dave Niose

>FURTHER READING ON CORPORATE PERSONHOOD:

>Joel Bakan: The Corporation - The Pathological Pursuit of Profit 
and Power

>David C.  Korten: When Corporations Rule the World

>Claude Everett
>"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.  His 
method is to
>poison the channels of public information.  With a fascist the 
problem is
>never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to 
use the
>news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group 
more money
>or more power."
> Henry Wallace
>U.  S.  Vice President, 1888 - 1965

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