It has long been identified that the logic used in the running of many large corporations is actually psychopathic, meaning that it is divorced from empathy and any kind of felt connection to reality. The drive for 'profits' are often seen to be the primary purpose for the organisation and that other issues are secondary or irrelevant. The result is that many corporations have been involved with systematic destruction of our environment, communities and individual lives - while hiding behind their branding and carefully engineered PR speak. Can the corporation survive humanity's evolution towards real balance?
I first started considering this question and related ideas after watching a great documentary that deserves to be watched by many more of us, called 'The Corporation'. I had always seen the signs of the dysfunction within corporations I had been working within, but had not previously known the depth of the history behind the structures involved and the spiritual imbalance demonstrated behind the scenes for over a century.
THE CORPORATION is a Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
This documentary raises some absolutely essential issues regarding the nature of the corporations and the way that they have been defined within the legal systems as being equal to 'persons', opening them up to be able to act in ways that would otherwise only be possible for a human being - but without standing the risks that would otherwise be faced by a human who acts in dangerous/criminal ways. This fundamental misrepresentation of reality within the legal system means that individuals with no scruples, no concern for the wellbeing of the planet/people and a drive to 'succeed' and gain personal power can create a corporation and commit many crimes with minimal to no risk of retribution.
Within the 'eyes of the law', corporations are literally 'people' and so when we hear about how 'mcdonalds/esso/nike just bought a piece of land', it is as if the corporations is one super wealthy human being and not just an idea/vehicle created for the purposes of trade. It is clear that in many cases, if one single human being behaved as some of the corporations do, then it is probable that they would have been assassinated, executed or sent to exile long ago - but the corporate 'people' live on!
I highly recommend prioritising watching it if you haven't already - it provides the backdrop to the rest of this post.
Emotional Reality vs. Corporate Projections
It is abundantly clear to me when I look back at Earth's story and also around me at the mainstream human reality today, that the majority of the top-down power hierarchies, such as governments/empires, corporations and even sports clubs are designed with some form of domination in mind. They are often designed to dominate people within the organisation (usually on the lower levels) and also designed to dominate others outside too in various ways. Rather than seeking a real and honest balance with other beings, these groups typically are required or forced to conform to a template whereby as much as possible is controlled by as few a number of people as possible.
This template might be justified in a variety of ways, such as 'efficiency' or other corporate ideas, but in truth it is typically motivated by greed and beliefs that those at the 'top' are right to be controlling life on Earth. We can even see this on the dollar bill from America - where the 'all seeing' elite are elevated above the rest of their pyramid:
Examples of this domination are all around, from the way that employees of corporations are expected to conform to 'acceptable behaviour' policies and 'corporate norms' that typically involve no displays of real emotions and an unhealthy enforcement of mental control designed to limit free will expression. The result of such 'norms' is mental/emotional dysfunction, feelings of being ill at ease and a loss of peace, love, personal power and wisdom - since all of these require a free will within an individual before they can manifest properly and a free will requires free emotional movement.
The control agenda really IS the 'corporate agenda' that is mentioned in the above documentary and rejected by some of those in the corporate world as being an unfair description of their intentions. As long as corporations are run for profit as a primary motive and as long as they employ power hierarchies then they will be primarily about control, since an absence of control means an absence of hierarchy and a much wider spectrum of personal desires and agendas being followed by those involved than the narrow search for 'profit' that is typically maintained by those who run the corporations of today (and our past).
Steemit as an anarchist corporation?
When I first learned about Steemit through an interview with 
Given that corporations are required by law to put profits first in the USA region, what does that imply for the future of a community that finds itself formed around that product and the ideology of the corporation involved? Is it even possible for a well intentioned corporation to deliver on the promise of an anarchist ethos without significant changes to the legal corporate infrastructure in the wider world context?
As was made clear in 'The Corporation', the basis of the corporate structures in 'law' is fundamentally broken (hearted) and so it is all too common for the best of intentions to quickly become tainted as unexpected pressures emerge from the wider world and existing groups/forces who have no intention of losing their power monopolies that involve controlling people's will and also their wallets. I think
An ideal association with no rulers (an-archy = 'no rulers') is one that is purely based on voluntary interaction, with no force or coercion involved - including coercion in the form of claiming to 'own' most of the land and resources and thereby leaving the rest of the people with little choice but to go against their real feelings and work for the 'land owners' instead of following their own destiny. Therefore, it is fair to say that even Steemit is not true anarchy in the sense that the bigger a wallet becomes, the more 'ruler power' it's owner has and although the 'rules' might not be set in stone, they are effectively enforced by setting conditions on the use of the resources being held by the one with the larger wallet.
I'm not sure there is any solution to all of these challenges without a full reset back to a fully natural way of being that involves no ownership of land in a rigid sense and thus no coercion through unequal distribution of resources.
It remains to be seen whether EOS will make any headway towards a real and felt balance, but one thing I do know for sure is that we cannot have real balance without radical changes at all levels in society and it must all be led by the hearts and wills of those involved, rather than the mental programs of a few who set the direction for everyone else by proxy!
CORPS (DEATH)
ORATION (SPEAKING)
CORPORATION = DEATH SPEAKING
CORE
POOR
RATION
= Rationing and Poverty At the Core
Just some 'Spelling' to think and feel into!
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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