We Live In A Political World

We live, simultaneously, in two different worlds. Ultimately, we live in the World of Nature, a world that we did not create and the world upon which all life depends. Most immediately, we inhabit a "human world" that we create ourselves. Because our human world is the result of our own choices and actions, we can say, quite properly, that we live, most immediately, in a “political world.” In this blog, I hope to explore the interaction of these two worlds that we call home.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

#29 / An Editorial Change Worth Making

In the political reality that we have created in the United States, corporations are, indeed, "people," or at least are entitled to most or all of the privileges and powers that we believe that people should enjoy.

This "truth" about corporations is definitely not an inevitable part of the reality of our world. We spoke it into being (thanks largely to a set of concatenated pronouncements by the United States Supreme Court), and we can speak it right out of existence once again.

Here's a place where we ought to be exercising a little "editorial discipline," in my opinion.