{"id":23796,"date":"2017-04-30T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23796"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:00:37","slug":"the-corporatocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23796","title":{"rendered":"The Corporatocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Corporatocracy <\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"cartoon-regulatory-octopus\"<\/p>\n

The interests of Washington and large corporations have merged so completely they are now inseparable.<\/b><\/p>\n

America\u2019s large corporations and its government have merged. Or was it an acquisition? If the latter, who acquired whom? Unfortunately, the labels affixed to purely corporate combinations lose their analytical usefulness here. While the two retain their own distinct legal structures and managements, so to speak, such a close community of interest has evolved that it\u2019s no longer possible to separate them or delineate their individual contours. Political labels are no help; the ones most often used have become hopelessly imprecise. The Wikipedia definition of \u201cfascism\u201d is over 8,000 words, with 43 notes and 16 references.<\/p>\n

However, the conjoined blob is so big, rapacious, and intrusive that akin to Justice Potter Stewart\u2019s famous non-definition of obscenity, everybody knows it when they see or otherwise come into contact with it. This article will use the term \u201ccorporatocracy.\u201d It\u2019s less letters, dashes, and words to type than \u201cthe corporate-government-combination.\u201d No serviceable understanding of either US history or current events is possible without close study of the corporatocracy. Unfortunately, such study, like entomology or cleaning septic tanks, requires a stout constitution. But take heart, entomologists grow to love their creepy crawly things, and septic tank cleaners say that after a few minutes you don\u2019t even notice the smell.<\/p>\n

A cherished delusion of naive liberals holds that big government is a counterweight, not a partner, to big business. Such a rationale is touted when the righteous demand new regulation, the public and media endorse it, the legislators pass it, and the president signs it into law. However, there are always unpaved stretches on the road to hell\u2014once regulation is law, the righteous, public, media, legislators, and president, and their ostensibly good intentions, are on to the next cause.<\/p>\n

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The Corporatocracy The interests of Washington and large corporations have merged so completely they are now inseparable. America\u2019s large corporations and its government have merged. Or was it an acquisition? If the latter, who acquired whom? Unfortunately, the labels affixed to purely corporate combinations lose their analytical usefulness here. While the two retain their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171,3867,865],"class_list":["post-23796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporations","tag-corporatocracy","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23797,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions\/23797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}