Corporations Exploit

We live in a business owned society.

Who controls business controls the future.

Corporations have access to every part of our lives. They control what we see, what we wear, what we eat, how we perceive and how we think. They are not the only entities that do this, but they have the most money, the most power, and the most control. They are in control of what the audiences of the world bare witness to. This is not good or bad in itself, it is simply the way the world works. However, "With great power comes great responsibility", and we must ask ourselves if this immense amount of power is being used wisely, if it is being used democraticaly, if it is being used for the best interests of the people.

The Corporations are the gatekeepers to the world of ideas. Through their advertising and media programming we have acquired many memes and perceptions of the world. They are not the only method by which memes are spread, but they are guarding the best ways to do it, like television. By controlling what the majority of people in the world's only hyperpower see on billboards and TV 24/7 they have complete control of all the memes that could be spread through this effective and popular medium. We are bathed daiy in the ideas they choose to show us. Again, this description should go without ethical bias, we need only ask how it is being used.

Square Deal

"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us."

New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have."

Speech to veterans, Springfield, IL, July 4, 1903