BUSINESS AND STATE

Everyone knows that one basic tenant of the United States of America is separation of Church and State. Business and State, however, remain intricately entwined, typically to the advantage of large corporate business. That is to say, many large corporations have, by nature of capitalism, one goal above all others: increasing profit. Let me say that again. Not profit, but constantly increasing profit. This places a heavy burden on executives whose jobs depend on, and soon become defined by, increasing profit. As primarily financial institutions, corporations that become large financially typically begin seeking and implementing financial solutions to their problems. Consider, for example, a large corporation’s dilemma whereby an environmental “problem” blocks increasing profit. From a purely “business” perspective, the problem is one needing a financial solution. That is, the problem is one of fiscal resolution. This theoretically separates and absolves the executives from responsibility as to the “final” solution and exactly how it is administered. For publicity reasons, the solution needs to be accomplished by someone outside the corporation (e.g. professional “hit person” aka “disinformation specialist,” “influencer” or “lobbyist”) to insure “plausible deniability,” should the effort in any way go public and/or amiss. This chain of reasoning ends when it ultimately becomes cheaper and easier to murder the person(s) behind the “problem.”

While this is admittedly a fictitious scenario, it suggests a tenable outcome of large corporate business that seems to me to be affecting executive branch of the US government as well. Not that anyone’s actually being murdered. Well, that is, if you discredit things like indirect excessive deaths from COVID (e.g. https://sports.yahoo.com/dnc-speaker-...) or as a result of loosening or eliminating federal human, financial and environmental protections.

It isn’t inconceivable to me that this “new” form of anethical business has infiltrated the corporate businesses to the point that their influence on government has created a form of supra-corporate-and-governmental, white-collar, “organized crime.” If so, it’s likely to take more than a change of government and/or large corporate leadership to correct.

Separation of Business and State is a predicate in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, where the challenge for youth feeling disenfranchised is to become a blue-collar “Fast Eddie.” A Fast Eddie is an individual, independent contractor who makes him- or herself available to “do the dirty work” for compensation (“comp” in my science-based future world existing on the edge of madness).

And, what, you ask, of separation of Church and State? At the edge of madness, spirituality is something individual, while religions (the “Church”) have become social clubs operating as…yes, businesses. It would make a good book, if I hadn’t already written it.

The Edge of Madness