|
|
An ‘Era of Fear’ a world where corporate competence verses government scruples, where cutting edge technological advancements designed for the sole purpose of uniting the world through viable, easy access communications networks…verses the biting reality of the dependent nations, trapped in a purple haze, dominated by frugal pseudo-charity in the form of exploitation, government corruption, and the lack of ability for a stable, friction-free collective. In a world consumed by the wealth, power and sheer monstrosity of Global Corporate networks, economic re-invention, restructuring, revolution, the ordinary man, is redundant. Profit taking precedence over the instability of rudimentary human principles… ethics, morals, remorse…but LEGAL, and so in the eyes of the warlords of our time, those corporate Tycoons, Cocoa-cola, Nike, Teledisec, Motorola, that service the mainstream conformity of our…neoliberal…ideals, the narcissistic face of our global investors serves us all, be it through the opulence of modern day technology and communication, or its internecine munificence in its attempt to harness the free-market. Separation from such idealistic, political dogma seems absurd… Even in the face of inevitable anti-global reformation, the corporate giants and their fundamental monetary expansion probe the airways and satellites with their micro-villial communications, serviced by other such elite organisations, manage to stretch their legal limits to smaller, needy, and thus susceptible countries. Eventual exploitation and corruption of its people is inevitable, but can’t the world just see it as…a means to an end! Take the infamous Nike label, global sponsorship for sporting activities, charitable donations, and a rather wrinkle-free public profile. This concealing the exploitation of labour conditions in Indonesia where labourers were employed at below minimum wage, below legal age and below such standards of labour conditions, as one would not expect from a company of Nike’s scale. Sweatshops. Children. International demand for renowned Nike sportswear. Who does Nike serve? The consumer. The belly of its own economic greed. The hapless gullibility of people demanding a pair of ‘takkies’, a peak, even a shirt, made for, at most, one tenth of the selling price to the public. All this while its employees live in an economic drought, unable to purchase even the product itself.
|
