Breaking news: since John Roberts and the Federalist Five ruled that no presidential pardon can ever be questioned in a court of law, Donald Trump gave the first ever presidential pardon to a corporation. Some bitcoin outfit incorporated in the Seychelles that had some trouble with authorities over shady dealings, money laundering, trifles. They got an absolute, blanket presidential pardon. Even if Trump committed a crime in granting the pardon (say he was paid $50M for the pardon by these bitcoin bros), pardons are part of his core presidential powers, so — absolute immunity, even if he took a $50,000,000 bribe to grant the unappealable pardon. Suck on it, cucks.
Meantime, a few words about the modern, American global corporation. I’m thinking about corporate medicine since a recent run in with a urological corporation, the biggest in the USA, apparently, whose top local branch biller shanked me in the urethra with a rusty ice pick a few weeks ago:
You can’t avoid the word psychopath to describe the corporate person. A psychopath cannot feel empathy or regret and acts only in his own self-interest. Very few psychopaths are serial killers like the ones we see on TV. Most are charming, determined, ambitious, highly intelligent, strategic, great salesmen, fearless entrepreneurs, CEOs, top surgeons, pundits and the highly focused leaders of many professions. James Fallon, affable neuroscientist and expert in the psychopath’s brain, who discovered he was a psychopath at the age of sixty, lays out the entire constellation of psychopathic traits. The thing that convinced him he was a psychopath, after the familiar PET scan of that distinct brain and the unanimous answers of all of the people in his life indicating that he was indeed a psychopath, was that he truly didn’t care about the conclusive diagnosis.
In order to understand the nature of corporate medicine, it’s necessary to grasp the essential personality of the Supreme Court-created “person” that is the modern corporation. The case for the psychopathy of corporations is made beautifully in a 2003 documentary called The Corporation, (now available for free on youTube, highly recommended). Corporations possess all the attributes of psychopathic serial killers. These traits, as outlined by an FBI profiler of serial killers, are: callous unconcern for the feelings of others; incapacity to maintain enduring relationships; reckless disregard for the safety of others; deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning others for profit; incapacity to experience guilt; failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors. It is ridiculous to expect the human representatives of such a “person” to “first do no harm” since the entity they serve cannot feel empathy or regret and has only one concern – maximizing profits. It is better to bill for an unnecessary, painful operation without doing any prior tests, and to hurt the patient, than not to bill at all.
A corporate “person” has only one legal duty, according to the Supreme Court, to maximize shareholder profit. To this end a corporate person, unburdened by empathy or regret, often has a high tolerance for what economists call ‘externalities’, the unfortunate downside outcomes of corporate profit-making activities. The price of settling a class action lawsuit from a community downstream whose children are poisoned by lead, or any toxic bi-product of the corporate product, for example.
The corporate “person” is a complete psychopath. Corporate culture encourages the human embodiment of its essential character to rise to leadership positions. The corporate structure keeps every psychopath working for it free from personal liability for anything. Fair is fair. The corporate personality also explains a lot about the severe, mechanical, sometimes deadly, practices of corporate medicine. The awful truth is that we are currently living in the judicially-approved, psychopathic billionaire-created Age of the Corporation, in other words, the Golden Age of Psychopaths.
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