Corporate Social Review Magazine 1st Quarter 2013 | Page 92

Cor Blimey!
The Corporation DVD Documentary
This is an award winning documentary
about the nature of the modern corporation,
the character of capitalism and the state of
big business. As The Daily Telegraph quote
says on the DVD cover it “May do for big

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business what Jaws did for sharks”.
Yes, it’s a polemic, yes it has an agenda,
yes it’s probably not fair and balanced. But
it will, I hope, make you think.
The film’s starting point is the concept
(as recently decided by the American
Supreme Court) that the Corporation is a
person, at least in terms of its legal status
and place in our society.
So, asks the film. If the Corporation is
a person, just what kind of person is the
Corporation? And their conclusions are
startling. Spoiler Alert: Corporations as
psychopaths, and we are, collectively, their
victims.
You might not agree with everything they
say, you might take issue with how they
process information and facts. But I dare
you to watch this and not be challenged.
I challenge you not to at least ask yourself
how we managed to get to a place where
the ‘people’ with the most influence and the
most power to decide the character and

nature of our society are ‘people’ with no
conscience, no memory, no emotion and
only one motivation – share-holder value.
We will at some later stage spend some time
discussing the destructive nature of those
two chilling words and the massive harm
they have done to those share-holders and
the economic system we all hold a share
in. But that is for another time. For now a
shameless plug of a shocking film.
Find The Corporation on DVD, buy it, hire
it, hell, strike a blow against the system and
steal it. Just watch it.
You may never look at your Fanta Orange
or your IMB desk top machine quite the
same again.

Pic from Treas

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