Transthesis

Feb 04 2010

[A Druckerian window into the Super Class elite. Watch as these accomplished global managers’ formulate and pitch ideas for redesigning the world, through their corporations. Did you vote for any of these people to represent your interests in the “custodianship of the global commons?” No, this corporate proxy collective or array was selected, not elected. While these [semi-artificial] individuals attempt to imagine world redesign as solution-focused proprietary operations, the corporations who own them drive the world daily closer to Apocalypse. We natural persons should be grateful for this opportunity to examine our collective enemy. The WEF brainstorm exposes the raw stuff of multinational corporate governance, leadership, management theory. This has nothing to do with democracy. Here we can observe the nature of managerial power: epistemological, top-down, anesthetic, brutal, banal, glazed in sweetness … in a word, artificial. The presupposition in the general discourse is transparent. The sovereign nation-state is almost entirely obsolete. At least, many of the commentators are pretending as if that were a fact. Also, is there any acknowledgment of tribal independence that escapes the corporation-dominated commons envisioned at WEF? One wonders whether any measure measure of authenticity for natural persons or collectives would be permitted, should these globalist agents/forces attain their ambitions. Perhaps a few human zoos might suffice, as a signifier of corporate authenticity [an oxymoron], to be referenced in corporate promotion, especially for CSR purposes. While [democratic, nationalistic] civilization and unexploited tribal life are simultaneously set aside in the WEF brainstorm,  economic management is promoted as the preeminent benevolent force for planetary stability - pure Drucker! Unfortunately, no evidence exists that corporations are holistically capable of anything but inflicting long-term harm upon every society or environment in which they operate. The most amazing fact unaddressed in this pantomime, is that these are the very forces - artificial persons, their owners and proxies - who are responsible for, profit from or exacerbate the most catastrophic events to afflict the globe, certainly over the past ten years, and arguably over the past 150 years and beyond. Corporations, since 1819, have been animated primarily to shelter greedy or otherwise anti-social individuals from social or legal accountability and enhance their power over all other individuals and against government intervention. Not only is this WEF brainstorm performance a case study in camouflaged hubris, it is corporate propaganda disguised as thoughtful human exchange. These people are proxies for soulless corporations who are designed for one purpose only: making money. What is all that expressive deep conviction, projected by the participants, about? All one has to do, to understand the depth of the deception on display here, is to review the WEF list of industry partners and try to jibe what you hear with what you know about these companies. How have they performed over their artificial lifetimes? The tone of the WEF brainstorm is evocative of the most recent EXXON [a WEF industry partner] CSR promotional ad campaign. Let me paint a picture. The colors are white and icy blue. The presentation is clean. Marvel at the good looking/trustworthy foreign guy. He’s telling you soothingly that EXXON’s environmental record is great! EXXON cares about people, is really committed to helping you and me and everybody all over this crazy green world… This is the happy digitized face of the neo-Robber Baron. Continuing to use EXXON as a prime WEF example, do these words ring a bell: Valdez; Aceh; or Queens? The list of communities and people decimated by that one corporation’s activities is tragically, inexcusably long and unspeakably grievous. EXXON is only one of the “corporate citizens” partnering to redesign your natural world at WEF, through the auspices of the WEF, with a syndicate of the most powerful multinationals in the world. Parse the language used by the participants. You are watching the coagulation of a strange religion. Call it the Wholly-owned-humanity of MGT. - MILO]

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