The movie largely reaffrimed much of my knowledge about how corporations operate. Their soul task is to create profit which is to be done by any means possible. Corporations have marginalized, enslaved, killed, stolen, annihilated, polluted, and manipulated, all in the name of the dollar. If someone or a group of people did this in the name of say, Allah, they would be considered terrorists; but, behind their bulletproof shield of being incorporated, these people are not only legitimate, but they are rewarded with being the richest people in the world. Well why doesn't our government step in? Our government? Since Reaganomics, our mantra has been "small government." It has largely allowed these corporations, these profit-sucking inhuman, immoral, juggernauts, to be able to run free, uninhibited by anything (well except for a few fines). I picture a giant monster trudging over a landscape and stepping on the livelihoods and cultures and natural resources of everything that our world is, squashing it, picking up money, and walking away whistling a tune and snapping its fingers.

I do not understand why there hasn't been more of an outcry in our country. We are largely apathetic and unphased by the news of awful atrocities that are occurring throughout the world. Many people dismiss it as liberal propaganda, trying to socialize the US and ruin our freedom! Media and its enhanced role in our lives has sustained our general malaise and apathy towards the problems the world, but also inhibitted our independent critical thinking skills. People watch so much television nowadays that their minds become hypnotized. Many people go through their day working long hours, with minimal wages, and eat Fast Food, drink a 6 pack, and watch TV. There is no time for critical thinking about abstract topics such as political theory and sustainability. We are certainly disconnected from many of the externalities that free trade helps create. Our apathy, as a result, is helping sustain and perpetuate free trade policies that are systematically ruining cultures of people, enslaving them into a system where they can never be anything but peasants, and destroying ecosystems on a grand scale. They are destroying the natural framework of our environment with hardly any repercussions; which in turn, encourage them to do so again, so long as it generates profit. These fat old white guys, sitting on their stacks of cash, are pointing their finger and dictating the way trade occurs.

It is all a sloppy mess of the way things are and I am not sure where or how we should go about changing things; all I know is that the way corporations operate is immoral, unjust, and unsustainable