Have you ever watched the documentary The Corporation? If not, you must.
It is now available on YouTube and everywhere else, but as an experiment, I’ve embedded the Hulu version of it here:
Have you read the breakthrough novel of the year? When you are done with that, try:
In Search of Sungudogo by Greg Laden, now in Kindle
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There aren’t many political arguments where it is worth turning the potentially high information content of text and graphics into the low information content typically found in film. Film is for other purposes, where the visual matters. I also haven’t watched An Inconvenient Truth or Capitalism: A Love Story. I did watch Sicko, and while it contains a couple of good points, it frankly wasn’t worth sitting through.
And if efficiency of transmitting information was the point, you would have a point!
Greg is recommending it for its entertainment value?
There are things other than efficient transmission of information and entertainment. An example might be, almost all effective learning that happens. So, I reject your false contrast and I do not assume that Dr. Laden is suggesting this film for entertainment. Though it is entertaining.
I say this as one who watched it more than once, including in a classroom of a great instructor who understood the value of a documentary such as this one.
…which refuses to stream content to anywhere outside of the US.
For me, this ranks up there with The Power of Nightmares. Great programs.
Deen: Epic fail. Well, you can maybe watch it here: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/the_corporation/ in parts.
Great 2+ hour presentation on what corporations get away with here and around the world.
Stuff I’ve pretty much known for some time. But here is what I propose as a first step in getting back the power reserve to the people.
Modify the 14th Amendment to include the phrase “Such rights enumerated in the Constitution and its Amendments do not apply to inanimate entities.”
That would correct the mistake that we’ve endured for the last 150 years.
Fail: “Express Install is not supported on this operating system.”
Which is actually a good thing, because every time I upgrade Flash it breaks.
Watch it here:
http://www.documentary-log.com/you-are-watching-the-corporation/
Free – without the commercial breaks. It’s , well, less corporate that way.
Very recently, I rented the DVD (advertisement free) from blockbuster.com, fwiw.