YouTube – where old TV promos go to live.
I love boing boing! Check out the cameras and the typewriters but the fashions…omfg!
YouTube – WITI TV-6 – News Update [1982] {1 min}.
Posted 8 months ago at 7:13 am. Add a comment
YouTube – Story of Stuff
Auntie Gertrude alerted me to this luvly little video…
YouTube – Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff.
Posted 8 months ago at 8:46 am. Add a comment
the corporation
So I finally got around to watching this lengthy documentary which has been lying around my place for a few years gathering cobwebs. Which is a shame really because it deserves to be watched.
However Youtube is everyone’s friend and it looks like the whole thing is available in bits so knock yourselves out. Highlights for me were the bits on “The Investigators” Fox News story on BST and the story about IBM during WW2. Both stories highlight a key feature of the corporation, that is, its survival instinct dominates any concerns of morality. The allegation against IBM were covered extensively in the book IBM and the Holocaust and the Fox/Monsanto coincidence is also covered in the documentary Outfoxed.
The survival instinct of the corporations cannot be underestimated. As a human invention their existence has produced some of the worst features of capitalism stemming from the sole concern for making money. In other words, human beings invented these things and gave them only one thought, to make money. It stands in stark comparison with the articles in a country’s constitution which might have concerns for the public good, morality, religion, the environment, law and order and so on. And while nation states are constrained by territorial boundaries the corporations have risen to a point where they transcend the power of the state yet at their heart, corporations are still human inventions, we can bring them to heal.
Or can we? These corporations embody a very human characteristic, the will to live. That instinct exists in the hearts and minds of the people who sit in the boardrooms of these things and they understand only too well the possibility that their powerful position could be undermined by the will of the masses. So they will act to prevent any dissolution, just like Murdoch is acting to protect the interests of News.corpse for the battle lines are clear. A corporation that exists with no temporal limits, no certainty of death cannot reflect the true nature of humanity. The corporation fundamentally does not serve the people, it serves itself and its only objective is to make money and money is another guise for power. That’s why the Egytians built pyramids, so their kings could live forever apart from the world that gave them life. So the corporations will engage in activities that make them look like good corporate citizens because their biggest fear, their only fear, is that the people that created them might decide to kill them.
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago at 9:36 am. Add a comment
Some crazy Youtube action…
Let’s start with this one
Or maybe some good ole “love the mac”
or even
maybe some “smarty cereal”
after all 20 million ppl can’t be wrong.
still I think Janis gets my vote this morning.
