The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the detachment of corporate systems from human values and emotions.
Charles A. Reich's quote illustrates the paradox of a corporate state that operates with immense efficiency and legality while being disconnected from the needs, values, and emotions of individuals. It points to the dangers of allowing such a powerful entity to function without human oversight or ethical considerations, ultimately questioning whether progress and rationality can coexist with human well-being.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the ethics of corporate governance.
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
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