The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the detachment of corporate systems from human values and emotions.
Charles A. Reich's quote illustrates the paradox of a corporate state that operates with immense efficiency and legality while being disconnected from the needs, values, and emotions of individuals. It points to the dangers of allowing such a powerful entity to function without human oversight or ethical considerations, ultimately questioning whether progress and rationality can coexist with human well-being.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the ethics of corporate governance.
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.
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