This documentaries job is not just to simply define the interactions that happen between corporation and humanity. This film shows the hierarchical processes by which certain images find themselves at the forefront of a persons apperception. It also tells us how these corporation powers have managed to falsely fold over the public, the government, the FDA, college professors, and research/facility funding. Widely talked about in the feature is the idea that a business should be seen as a group of persons in power enacting the collective corporation's wishes, not as one person making all the calls. These power cells in the anatomies of these businesses can be made up of the nicest people you've ever met, but together, they have the ability to bring down entire communities, cities, and even greater parts of the Earth.
Privatization of the public and rain waters in Bolivia's third largest city Cochabamba led to a total destabilization of pertinent services in community infrastructures. The water laws prevented people from collecting this water to survive, and used their unpaid bills to evict people out of their lands. These infrastructures of education, public health and sanitation, and employment were uprooted and further demolished by the Bechtel vs Bolivia's Water War in Cochabamba. When the people asked for water, they got teargassed. When the people had to pay for water now, they stopped affording sending their children to school. When water and basic services are held in the hands of a corporation that owns however much of a percent of fresh water reserves, that percent of water owned doesn't reflect the number of people who would be affected if those reserves were to cease existing, to which they'd be left in the instruction of the corporations. And I don't think those corporations have any training in dealing with emergency water shortages.
"Transnational corporations have a long and dark history of condoning tyrannical operations. Corporations in Germany led to the upheld of Fascism". Today, the boycott of the once Nazi drink Fanta created for Germany so that Coca Cola could keep their operations running and flowing into Germany during WWII, would do no good or harm in the grand scheme of things. Corporations like Coca Cola are able to disregard any major cataclysm, as long as their effusion of monetary funds keeps circulating from public to public.
The concepts of some of these stories are horrifying. It showed me just how easily it is within the present jurisdictions of businesses to systematically control and organize lives within entire continents. The day that Snowden defected and released those documents was a governmental breach of privacy using web surveillance, a ploy using a medium made possible by the boom of the 21st century interfaces, such as cell phones and online social networkings. Companies and governments alike have been using techniques to track the movements of their public way before Snowden, though. IBM's were German-ordered punch cards used to collect census and death tracks within WWII concentration camps. The same IBM's came from a company that dispersed their regular punch card products to citizens all around, keeping quiet about their productions until the crimes were disowned to the public.
The leverage that a single individual might have against a thriving and expansive business is microscopic. Even governments have become powerless under the gaze of corporations through their expansive globalization process. But, the leverage changes fast if the individual were to have something that the business was scared of revealing, a change of roles in cat versus mouse. These leverages can be created, and the actions of businesses can be exposed when the moral collective consciousness comes together from those who voice their concerns not as individuals, but as a community that wants to take back its claim on this Earth and doesn't want those rights being infringed upon.
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