A corporation is a person? We should have them sectioned as psychopaths. -The Corporation Full Length Documentary

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Get a drink and some nibbles, sit back and enjoy the movie

NEW LINK – NOVEMBER 10th 2011 – http://inquiringminds.cc/the-corporation-123-what-is-a-corporation – - – thanks Annelise.

The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. The Corporation has been shown worldwide, on television, and via DVD, file sharing, and free download. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.

The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to effect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. One theme is its assessment as a “personality”, as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite[nb 1] led to corporations as “persons” having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The film’s assessment is effected via the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and a consultant to the FBI, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically-diagnosed psychopath. The documentary concentrates mostly upon North American corporations, especially those of the United States.

The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business practices. It establishes parallels between the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave and the DSM-IV’s symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect for the law.

Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, the popular General Smedley Butler exposed a corporate plot against then U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; the tragedy of the commons; Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex; economic externalities; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust (see IBM and the Holocaust); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia’s municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.

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  GERRARD042010 14 hours ago

• corporations don’t want well educated and well informed? people they want

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  AntiWarProLife 1 day ago
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  thekelvinRevenge 2 days ago

• Great documentary, and? I agree with most points, but… big government has NOT been the solution as we see. Correct thinking on free markets is best explained by Ron Paul, the candidate that corporate media is trying to sweep under the rug.

  Maytons 3 days ago

• @Maytons You are joking? right? if anything the type of laissez-faire capitalism that Ron Paul advocates goes to the advantage of the big corporations and multinational conglomerates. What he advocates is most certainly not the answer to the encroaching influence and power of corporations.

  xspiritofdivisionx 2 days ago
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  yellowbrickroad 1 day ago

• @yellowbrickroad Let me answer your question with another question: what is right about laissez-faire capitalism? It’s been proven time and time again that the Friedmanite argument that if you leave the market to? itself it will eventually balance; it’s false and it’s dangerous. As for the bailouts, you actually got it the completely wrong way round. It’s not too much government involvement that has caused the crisis, it’s too little involvement. It has happened because of lack of regulations.

  xspiritofdivisionx 1 day ago

• how is this going to? be fixed?

  mattrosssso 3 days ago

• good to see this again! great job!?

  MrMinutemen 6 days ago 6

• Great documentary.? Should be shown in high schools in the USA.

  bpartoens 6 days ago 10

• This? is one of my favorite documentaries.

  jacemachine 1 week ago

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