C6RP6RATI6NS are the ‘BEAST’ made MANifest.
They are parasitic SuperOrganisms consuming Gaia.
Please note: While I speak generally about corporations here, I know there are exceptions to the overall picture I’ve composed. However, these are getting harder to find.
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Man invented Satan to blame his failings on.
But Lucifer remained a conceptual projection until Man conceived the corporation, which is the Devil incarnate and a force to be reckoned with.
One of the profound cunumbrums of the ‘deliberate’ destruction of Gaia for profit by the Fossil Fuel industry and many other corporations, resides in the struggle to understand how ‘those people in charge’ can continue to pursue their literally ‘scorched Earth’ agenda.
Survival is our primary biological imperative, genetically hot wired into us and even world class sociopaths ( or perhaps in this case socio-psychopaths) are subject to this demand.
Since it is highly unlikely that the actual endgame here, is the willful destruction of our environment, it would appear that what we are witnessing is the inflexible struggle for self-preservation by the corporate sector, at all costs — and this provides a clue as to the ‘nature’ of the Beast.
For the FF industry and corporations, their survival is priority number one.
They are the world. More specifically, they are the superior predatory demi monde imbedded in the vast inferior ‘easy prey’ world provided for their exploitation. This collective mindset has become the ‘dogma’ of corporate self-determination.
Every individual constituting the corporal body of the Beast, is locked into this myoptic ‘world’ view and they are bound to obey it, without question. To do so would be heretical and could result in their expulsion.
The OraGoogle defines “superorganism” as “a social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism”.
Cults fall within this category and the Republican Party in its current form can be viewed as a superorganism. Although it would appear that the traitor is in charge, he is bound by his base to give them what they demand and they in turn are manipulated by him, while the rest of the party is caught in the web spun by this mutual dependence. As a result, none of the humans involved are in control and the party is on auto-destruct.
Likewise corporations can be thought of as a form of ‘cult’, with the people that work for them weak-willingly bound by all-pervasive corporate ‘conditioning’ and the demands of predatory business. That is if they aren’t already brainwashed by their own greed and the denial that it feeds off of.
All of this raises a number of questions:
Do corporations constitute fully independent entities, possessing their own separate inherent predispositions, with the human components obeying their every demand no matter how destructive?
Or couched somewhat differently: Are corporations superorganisms and exactly who, if anyone, is in control?
And another:
Do the demands of the corporation ‘override’ all other considerations and if so
why? — or perhaps more importantly, how?
And one more:
To what degree is this beast tamed or wild?
Laurence Durrell, in his novel ‘Mountolive’ from the Alexandria Quartet, describes the creation of an Egyptian ‘Coptic’ based conspiracy and at a pivotal moment in the book, relates how, having reached a certain stage in development, it takes on a life of its own. Hence forth, those who conceived it and had been more or less ‘in charge’, found themselves reduced to just trying to keep up with it.
It had become an ‘entity’, with a ‘life’ force of its own and no single person or group of individuals had control over it anymore. It was simply going to ‘play out’ and run its coarse. Short of being overpowered or the near impossibility of all those involved simply stopping, en mass, it was unstoppable. Momentum was ascendent.
I’ve read that insect hives and colonies have been observed to have what appears to be an overarching intelligence, which while directing it, is disembodied from the collective, as it cannot be discerned that any the members are in control, either as individuals or as a coordinated decision making directive group. In various manifestations, this appears to be inherent to the collective members of many species.
The murmurations of starlings is likely another example of this inter-connective ability for constructing what might be termed as an ‘emancipated aggregate entity’. By such fusion, the collective consciousness can apparently act like a ‘lens’, collecting, clarifying and focusing individual energy to create a form of ultra-unity which is superior to the sum of the component parts. It appears to be a more effective way to maximize the benefits of intra-species survival oriented cooperation.
I have sensed this phenomenon when engaged in team sports while playing with advanced players, as their confident skill palpably pulled me up toward their level.
In a corporation, responsible leadership (when present) is often muddied by short-term profit considerations and demands imposed from outside, as well as interior hierarchy. As a result, just who is making the ‘gears turn’ can be unclear. Because of this, ultimate responsibility can be defuse enough to allow individuals to evade culpability. The CEO , stockholders, owners and the demands of the market all have a part to play in ‘meal planning’ and ‘preparation’ can vary the choice of key ingredients. During ‘cooking’ these can alter, obscuring individual ‘flavors’ as they become subsumed by the whole. Vital considerations, such as the abstraction of long term survival, when this is an obstacle to immediate success in the pursuit of profits, can get pushed aside by more pressing concerns — and these place restraints on everyone involved full spectrum.
The corporation incarnate becomes ‘dear leader’, not the men ‘in charge’.
Business, having as its primary goal the acquisition of wealth, is a system in which morals and even ethics have little or no part to play. In fact, such considerations are impediments to the demands of the performance pressures of competition. In the past, when they did factor in, it was because someone in a position of power had either included them in their business model, or imposed them on their business decisions. The powerful influence and pervasiveness of religion also acted as a partial check to this rapaciousness and as the former has waned, the latter has blossomed, like deadly nightshade.
People that are not fettered in their decision making by decency, ethics and morals, tend to excel and climb the corporate ladder, displacing those ‘weaker’, but often more talented individuals hobbled by scruples. Nothing matters except success and success mostly means growth, profits and wealth. The ‘cult of the individual’ finds little sustenance because brand is more important than celebrity. When functioning correctly, even power ranking within the corporate structure, while essential for sustaining structural integrity, is sublimated to the corporate goals. The exception to this are certain billionaires who interweave their personality with their corporate brand — but this does not mean they exercise free will, as they remain subject to the demands of the source of their wealth.
It is a system that rewards sociopathic behavior and weeds out empathy and social responsibility.
It is heartless and soulless and known to celebrate various forms of what amounts to financial cruelty. Numbers become both a weapon and a shield. Ruthlessness is prized and guilt has no succor. Greed and competition compose the jet fuel propelling everything.
Reality is trimmed to the demands of the market, which is the only reality that counts, and denial is used like a hedge clipper to prune away the superfluous.
Sadly, it is the moral choice of every individual in the grip of this Beast whether to stay or leave. Although there are some for whom such a decision would approach life or death, these are relatively few. ‘Needing a job’, while widely accepted as a valid excuse, still covers a moral failing on the part of nearly every gainfully employed individual as they contribute (be it in their often seemingly insignificant way) to the destruction of our planet as a wondrous viable home. But in all fairness, they are not alone in this, as so many of the rest of us still pay our ‘tithes’ enabling environmental collapse.
Over the decades, as the corporate world as strengthened its hold on nearly all facets of society, it has become a brutal force, pervading the lives of and when possible, incarcerating enormous swathes of humanity. It is now the earthly embodiment of our self destruction and is fueled by our misplaced desires. This sea has become super heated into an ocean of greed generating a category 10 storm with a vortex which subsumes everything in its path, and with a predatory web that insnares the whole world.
Clearly, a corporation is not a living organism in the biological sense. It begins ‘life’ as a human construct and a quasi legal entity. However, just as hives and colonies, appear to function as ‘super-organisms’, in the case of corporations, with money flowing through their veins and profit as purpose, the corporate collective consciousness can take on a force that is beyond the scope of the individuals involved.
While this force is clearly generated by the collective, it grows to behave independently, while it feeds voraciously on the body of Mother Earth.
The only power capable of stopping it is not found in our current concern or even fear of its savagery, but rather in environmental collapse and its ability to trigger our survival imperative.
No one can predict how this will play out. There are too many variables and unknowns, while we find ourselves on a path, with a poorly drawn map to guide us. If we are lucky, the process of collapse will bring the Beast to its knees and we will desert it on mass, taking its power with us. Whether we will find the will to do so remains to be seen. There is precedent either way.
If we do, it will clear the way for us to refocus the same ‘murmurations’ we’ve misguidedly poured into this vortex of greed and direct it toward saving our superorganism mother, Gaia
Until that happens, the Beast will continue to run wild
— and we’ll need to look elsewhere for counter offensive measures.
Corporations cannot stop us from doing so, as they have not stopped millions already hard at work.
We need to act in any and every way we can, on whatever level each of us can manage— as individuals doing whatever is within our power, no matter how small and seemingly ineffectual. Whether we act alone, in groups and organizations, at home, in our communities, on the state level, nationally and internationally is not the critical factor here. Preferentially choosing what we suppose to be the most effective, rather than doing what is within our means on any front we can handle, has had the effect of creating indecision and enabling excuses, impeding action and wasting precious time. Through raising awareness, mutual support, financial contributions, innovative thinking and civil actions, progress can be moved forward. Inaction or waiting for someone else to act are pathetically irresponsible and penultimately selfish.
Those still without urgency in the face of this emergency, have to take a hard look at themselves and connect the climate dots, because denial, to greater and lesser degrees still rules almost all of us.
We can’t wait for change, we need to be change.