Disjointing the World Protects Us Against Global Manipulation

Here is some attempt to begin wrestling with this issue. However, their conclusion of Let go! is dissatisfying. No one either wants to or is able to actually let go. This quasi-Buddhist mantra is a lame duck excuse to quit worrying so much about something that is so important it ruffles your feathers all night long, yet so vague or ambiguous that your brain aches each time you consider the problem. In a later post, though, he gets it right, especially about the direction of commerce and the online community.

This guy grapples with a specific aspect of the issue much better. He is worth reading.

Here is another aspect of this particular topic about only one company invading the community of citizens. Yet, he looks at it as if he were himself a fledgling company, so-to-speak. His perspective is quite commercial, while missing the whole point. If someone is siphoning your thoughts off your blog, allowing others to converse about it at their place, but not letting you know about it, then you are being pimped and bannished from the conversation that you are generating. THAT's the rub!

Open Source, the Net and media piracy all have strong implications in this mess! Don't get me wrong though; I don't blame any of them. They are all consequences of transcendence beyond borders, as also are the new Germany, the European Union and the U.S. war in Afghanistan-Iraq-soon.to.be.Iran!

In short, the corporations deserve what they are getting. I DO blame them for many of the modern illnesses, starting with pollution, child labor, sweat shops in S.E. Asia, insatiable hunger for war-mongering, manipulation of the sinful nature in us through commerce and advertisements, unrighteous use of the law against people (through lobbying, raising the status of the corporation to higher legal entity than the citizen, curbing citizen's abilities to sue the companies while also limiting the citizen's use of bankruptcy as a defensive tool against their excessive fees and cruel attitudes in collecting debts). I have watched corporations ruin families' and individuals' lives and have been there to try to help these same people pick up the pieces.

I am opposed to Microsoft's bold attempts to monopolize their industry and expand into others with the same attitude. I am opposed to the passive attitude of the individual toward this sort of totalitarian attitude. I am opposed to the careless steward who abuses the people with whatever power they can grasp. I am opposed to the individual who has only their attitude to assault others with and they do not refrain from creating chaos or at least anxiety just to see that they can. The poison runs down hill, like Reagan's Trickle Down Economics.