The patient will see you now....
The BIG MEDICINE MAILING LIST is in the slips, and you are hereby invited to be on board when her bow hits the water, churning up metaphors, insights, and analyses for those battling malignant corporate power, at least those wise enough to explore Big Corporate Bodies as evolving living systems, eco-social pathogens and/or our morbid rivals for control of the world.
Here we will strategically examine these Big Bodies as true living systems, eco-social pathogens, and our virulent rivals for control of the world.
Let us just suppose Big Bodies: are real superorganisms that dominate, shape and synchronize their members' lives and minds; generate a monstrous share of the poison, pain and havoc in the world; have overtaken humans as Earth's new dominant species and hijacked our evolutionary course; may yet be thwarted if we wake up, and miniaturize/localize/democratize their premises in time.
We ask you not to debate these assumptions, just briefly pretend they are true. If indeed we presume they are, what kind of contest would we face, what would we have to learn and do?
OUR BASIC HYPOTHESES:
- Big Corporate Bodies are alive, in charge and out of control;
- They must be miniaturized, localized and democratized across the board to restore human sovereignty and humane evolution;
- Thanks to new people-power tech, the thousands now aware of Big Body rule (and our historic right to subvert it), and a hundred groups already building the post-corporate future, we are well begun.
- Now we simply have to "persuade" our Big Brethren to liberate their people, give up power and melt down.
This is going to take carrots, sticks, guile, and one hell of a wake up call. That's why we're here, and why we hope you will be also.
So if you have any seductive, intimidating or communicative arts, please join us and put them to a collective effort.
We hope you will use this list to broadcast any ideas, recon or tactics that might profit the resistance as a whole. (While we certainly sympathize with rants and raids against particularly malignant corporations, we conspire here to shrivel and supplant their kind as a whole, NOT promote single-issue reprisals.) We seek a final solution to the worldwide corporate plague, and that means victims on every front must recognize their common nemesis, and learn to think Big.
Big Med thus asks you to provision this list with the following aid:
Diagnostic - facts that illuminate the singular corporatist cause behind
most eco-social ills.
Remedial - broad-spectrum tactics to boost popular resistance locally
and wither Big Bodies globally.
Prognostic - self-fulfilling prescriptions for a spirited, sensual
post-corporate world.
We seek wise and witty contributions in any of these fields, particularly those that strengthen everyone's hand to belittle BIG's rampant power.
In sum, we ask your aid in chronicling and quickening the coming Big Devolution. Grand surprises await once you start to think BIG.
You have been invited because we already know of your interest in related issues. If you have friends of whom you can say the same, please send them the link below and invite them to join.
The List Moderators:
W.David Kubiak
Kathy Arlyn Sokol
Chris Case
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