commerce is the opiate of the people
The greatest threat to democracy - our boldest experiment - is not Trumpian idolatry and his blackshirt troll militia, not Putin’s spies, not even the mafiosa taking control of the internet - it’s corporatism. Only ignorance goes up against it as a serious contender for most venal and perfidious.
We have convinced our finest and brightest minds that the pursuit of money is a  valuable pursuit, that money is a useful measure. So they volunteer in droves to be put to work in corporate gulags analysing spreadsheets, learning to parrot incomprehensible gobbledegook, chasing self-serving targets, regurgitating turgid mission statements, and dreaming of one day flying the corporate VIP jet. They study, they pay, they pray.
All that valuable mind power, wasted. While innocents starve and refugees cry, while vapid politicians lie and dodge - playing some game only they find important, while the world waits and wonders. Many of our great minds are working new ways of flogging new and improved Gizmo X, so the company (their lord and liege) makes more money.
The Company is the earth and mother - it nurtures and suckles, and it punishes and chides. The Company is all. Nothing matters beyond its walls. It is a fortress against reality - it is stability and reliability, policy, and rules. And it looks nothing like the messy, incorrigible real world. Nothing.
The Company is a retreat from a confusing reality. In the Company, things make sense - even if they don’t, they will. The Great Leader will see to that. He, Almighty He, will work everything out and restore profitability. The minions pledge fealty to the great Company, all bow before it. It is more powerful than religion, more important than democracy. It is a beautiful screen that makes the world look good again - rational, reasonable, clear.Â
Commerce is the opiate of the people. It has killed religion stone dead.
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