{"id":101844,"date":"2020-10-31T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-review\/"},"modified":"2020-10-31T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:30:16","slug":"watch-the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a5a499d0b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a5a499d0b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_New_Corporation_The_Unfortunately_Necessary_Sequel_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_New_Corporation_The_Unfortunately_Necessary_Sequel_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_New_Corporation_The_Unfortunately_Necessary_Sequel_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_New_Corporation_The_Unfortunately_Necessary_Sequel_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In 2003, the Canadian documentary \u201cThe Corporation\u201d offered what it took to be a bold new thesis about the way corporations work. The film seized on an enormous legal-cultural quirk: that corporations, in terms of how the government and financial sector deal with them, are in many technical ways treated as \u201cindividuals\u201d \u2014 that is, they\u2019re treated like people. And so the filmmakers posed the question, If a corporation is like a human being, how would a psychiatrist choose to characterize that person? Well, let\u2019s see: Since corporations are ruled by the profit motive, they\u2019re almost by definition greedy, selfish, ruthless, and ultimately indifferent to the well-being of others. The conclusion the film came to is that the corporation, if you really look at it, has the profile of a psychopath.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of viewers seemed inordinately impressed with this thesis. I found it provocative and useful, and not necessarily wrong; it\u2019s probably always healthy to be reminded that corporations are acting in their own interest. Yet the reason I didn\u2019t think \u201cThe Corporation\u201d was all that as a documentary is simply that the thrust of its thesis \u2014 at least, once you got past the rather cute let\u2019s-put-the-boardroom-on-the-couch conceit \u2014 came down to the basic thing that a great many people have said about corporations ever since the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they\u2019re about money. They\u2019re about self-interest. They\u2019re about doing what it takes with stone-cold killer efficiency. (It\u2019s far from a coincidence that the word \u201cexecutive\u201d is a derivation of \u201cexecute.\u201d) But was any of this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>? \u201cThe Corporation\u201d pretended to say something revelatory, but what it really did \u2014 and one can give it credit for this \u2014 is to deliver a highly resonant metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I watched \u201cThe New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel\u201d wondering what this follow-up documentary\u2019s metaphor would be, and whether the film would have something eye-opening to say. The new film, like the first, is based on a book by its co-director, Joel Bakan (working this time with Jennifer Abbott), and it\u2019s another lively compendium of talking heads and shot-on-the-fly sequences of corporate players in action.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise is that it\u2019s a much better movie \u2014 deeper, headier, and scarier. \u201cThe Corporation\u201d did a good job of repackaging the conventional wisdom about corporations into the documentary version of a cautionary tale. \u201cThe New Corporation\u201d is about what\u2019s going on right now \u2014 about the ways the corporate ethos is changing, and metastasizing, in front of us. The sins of corporations have been chronicled in a thousand documentaries, but what you want from a film like this one is for it to touch the <em>metaphysics<\/em> of how corporations now work. \u201cThe New Corporation\u201d does that. It shakes up your perceptions. And it makes you suck in your breath.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing the film deals with is the way that corporations, over the last 20 years, seem to have heard the essential critique of them and responded in kind. By the early 2000s, corporations were under siege \u2014 the Enron debacle, companies like Monsanto called on the carpet for hiding decades of pollution \u2014 and this produced a change. By 2005, corporations began to make all kinds of promises, saying no to deforestation, investing in the building up of impoverished regions. Corporations, the film\u2019s narrator tells us, \u201chave mounted a major charm offensive, rebranding themselves and rebranding the entire capitalist system as having changed.\u201d They\u2019ve made \u201cgiving back\u201d a visible touchstone of their agenda. The new corporation sees itself as having a mission to benefit the world, and not just to reap benefits from it. The new ethos is \u201ccapitalism that cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But does it? The film presents the example of how JP Morgan Chase made it a mission to rebuild Detroit. They chose a city that was famous for its racial and economic turmoil and said, \u201cWe\u2019ll help.\u201d At the same time, the film includes a sequence shot at the World Economic Forum, where the head of a Hyperloop <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> company schmoozes Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JP Morgan, by saying that he wants to build a high-speed rail system in Detroit (something he was told to say to Dimon just one minute beforehand). At that moment, he\u2019s speaking the language of fake philanthropy; he\u2019s <em>using <\/em>the tragedy of Detroit to strike a deal.<\/p>\n<p>And what the film suggests is that JP Morgan is doing the same thing, only on a larger scale. The megabank\u2019s investment in Detroit is real \u2014 and, in a sense, unassailable. Yet the film makes the point that the conditions that plunged Detroit into bankruptcy in 2013 grew, in no small part, out of the 2008 meltdown that resulted from the irresponsibility of companies like JP Morgan, which was fined to the tune of $13 billion for the unethical selling of mortgage-backed securities based on toxic loans. The banks, of course, are now doing better than ever. So for JP Morgan, is coming to the aid of Detroit an act of \u201cgiving back,\u201d or is it a diversionary action designed to deflect from what really h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that many corporations, in their attempt to behave more like world citizens than psychopaths, do palpable good. Yet the larger capitalist ecosystem they swim in remains, by nature, relentless. In the film, Robert Reich, the former presidential adviser, puts it bluntly: \u201cThere is no such thing as corporate <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> responsibility. Corporations don\u2019t have the leeway to sacrifice shareholder returns for doing whatever they believe is socially responsible.\u201d In other words: Actions that come on as social responsibility might be added value, but they\u2019re <em>part<\/em> of the value. They\u2019re part of the new branding ethos.<\/p>\n<p>If that was the message of \u201cThe New Corporation,\u201d the movie wouldn\u2019t have much more impact than \u201cThe Corporation\u201d did. But, in fact, it\u2019s just the set-up for the film\u2019s most head-spinning \u2014 and chilling \u2014 piece of reportage, which is that corporations, driven by the rise of Silicon Valley, are now poised to infiltrate society in a way they never have before. You might say, \u201cReally? More than Ford, IBM, McDonald\u2019s, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, Wal-Mart, Amazon, AT&amp;T?\u201d But what the film says is that the lobbying culture of the last 40 years, which has been infamous for giving corporations more and more power as government officials \u2014 like, you know, the Congress and the president \u2014 have less and less, is merely the warm-up to what\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n<p>The grand Republican strategy has long been \u201cstarve the beast.\u201d Lower people\u2019s taxes, refuse to crack down on offshore corporate tax havens, so the government doesn\u2019t have the money to do what it wants to do \u2014 or, as some of us see it, what it <em>needs<\/em> to do. And like it or not, that strategy is becoming brutally effective. The U.S. government is increasingly strapped, and that\u2019s part of what leads to the drive toward privatization.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the new magic word of the corporate world, especially the technology sector. It wants to privatize\u2026everything. It has already tried to do that with prisons. It tried it with the military. The latest front: the privatization of water (yes, water, which Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, calls \u201can absolutely terrifying notion,\u201d a perception borne out by the disaster of Flint), and also education, as people like Bill Gates set up corporate school systems around the world. (Gates has seized on the current crisis to push for the idea of remote learning becoming permanent. I\u2019d love to poll parents on that one.)<\/p>\n<p>How could corporations wield this power? In part because they succeeded in converting our society into a place where everyone accepts that everything is marketing. A place where, as the Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel puts it, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to distinguish between being a consumer and being a citizen.\u201d In the film, the journalist Anand Giridharadas calls Silicon Valley \u201cthe new Rome of our time.\u201d The Valley, he says, \u201chas become this extraordinary power center that has a huge say over what kind of media and information we have.\u201d With that kind of control in place, when the government finds that it can no longer afford to prop up things like the public-education system, you can bet that corporations will be there to step in.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with all this, of course, is that it\u2019s built on an inherent conflict of interest. Corporations may say they have our best interests at heart, but their mandate is to make money, and they\u2019re not beholden to the citizens; they\u2019re not elected. That\u2019s why the prospect of governance-by-corporation is fundamentally anti-democratic. So is this the future? Maybe, maybe not. The film shows us lots of grass-roots protests against it. Yet \u201cThe New Corporation\u201d stands as an ominously profound warning about the kind of society we may be turning into because we\u2019ve allowed ourselves to be convinced that corporations are looking out for us. 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