The Corporation

Through a series of events that started with being there for someone who needed to vent, and ending with unanswered messages (that I kind of hope that by procrastinating my bedtime a little more through blogging will be answered eventually), I missed what promised to be some killer music in a local venue tonight. However, I saw a rather decent documentary: The Corporation.

Warning! This movie is not for the sleepy or the uninvolved. It's 2 hours and 25 minutes of why corporations are what they are and what they do to the ecological, social, and moral fabric of our society. A disembodied voice that could be HAL's sister carries you from segment to segment in this massive undertaking. The writers provide the history of how corporations came to be these legal entities with all the rights of a person (piggybacking the intentions of the 14th Amendment), then tick through a series of mental health criteria and how they apply to monster corporations. It's amazing, but corporate entities fit each one of the WHO's criteria for a psychopath!

All in all, a very good (yet waaaaaay too long) film. One that definitely makes you think, even if you don't want to.