A reasoned consideration for a new world order
(The Beacon)
By Braden Behan, Guest Commentary -- behan11@up.edu
What is the biggest problem with the world today? War? Famine? Oppressive Drug Laws? Poverty? Nay, it is none of these. It is the corporations!
They cause all the problems of the world. As long as corporations are allowed to be corporate and spew their products and materialism in the world, we will never be truly free from their grasp.
See, what corporate apologists don't understand is corporations only care about is money and making a profit at the expense of good, earthly people.
Corporate greed takes over society and tells us what is right and what is wrong. What they are really doing is spreading their corporationy lies and making more money. The more money they make the more corporationy they become. When that happens people get oppressed. They make laws, that are, like, supposed to be passed by our representatives but are usurped by money and corporate greed. You know what these laws are called? Corporate laws. Was your mind just blown? Mine was.
Now that we know the problem, I bet you are wondering what the solution is. Prepare for some knowledge. This solution isn't something that can be found on the shelves of any corporate supermarket or in some corporate factory. The solution is threefold.
First, we need to reorganize society in such a way that benefits everyone and not just the corporate fat cats. For starters, we can have these places where people come together and exchange goods and services. Like, one person will grow food, and another person will take care of people when they get sick. And another could open peoples' minds to the true state of affairs. Pretty mind blowing, huh? Now let's expand on that idea for a bit. These people could, like, create a bunch of other utopias like this, and they can, like, exchange their goods and services with each other. It's going to be huge!
Second, we just need to get rid of the means by which the corporations control our lives: money. Without money people could have as much stuff as they wanted. The corporations design things that break so we have to buy more things. Without money we could just make things that work. Like, this way people, instead of exchanging money for goods, people would exchange, like, the most commonly accepted commodities for goods. Without money the corporations would be forced to stop being so corporationy.
In conclusion, we have just laid out how we can effectively take down the corporate machine. Without their money and with the implementation of utopias, we can create a better world free of their corporationy ways.
Only then can we implement our third step: legalize it!
Braden Behan is a senior mechanical engineering major. He can be contacted at behan11@up.edu.
