“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.” LittlesTermActingTakenFeetEconomicPlanetsInternetLessonsShapesCapitalismUniversalPlanningCorporationsDepartmentSocialistIndispensableOld FashionedFree MarketAcquisitionParadoxicalStrategistPlannersMergersFree Market CapitalismMergers And Acquisitions Author:James Gleick
“In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.” PeopleMenWayYearsMatterStatesSeemsJobsRealizingUnitedUnited StatesTakenFourFrontsEightCorporationsInexorable Author:Alice Walker
“The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.” PeopleThinkingCompanyTakenEatingClothesStudiosCorporateCorporationsCoastAmerican LifeRecording StudioThinking The Same Author:Bob Dylan
“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?” PeoplePersonsMadeSaidGovernmentChristianYoungPresidentTakenPersonalityConscienceShameSensesPityMade ItCorporationsTreasuryPsychopathic Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor