Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧Jan 22, 2023

Random thought: large corporations have spent billions of dollars producing pop culture where the villain is an evil soul-eating corporation.

The overall effect has been to turn "evil, soul-eating corporation" into a cliche and a kind of stock villain on the same level as Smaug the Dragon, rather than something that exists and is a real-world problem.

In other words, money well spent?

Show threadRichard Haussmann
@charliejane Corporate/Monopoly evil is perceived like the weather. Unstoppable and part of "Nature." You can't beat it, endure it if you can't stay out of its path.
Jan 22, 2023 at 10:55pmWeb
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAJan 22, 2023
@rhaussmann @charliejane obligatory Le Guin, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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