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An Interview with David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World

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Kall: And I think that’s really what you’re describing as the post-corporate world, too. 

 

Korten: Well, I think it is.  Yeah, I wasn’t quite so much into that, into this framing at that time..,

 

Kall: (Laughs) Creepy jerks is not the language you would use. 

 

Korten: Laughs.

 

Kall: I’m sorry.

 

Korten:  Well, of course, you know in, you know, that was back in a time also when I was very focused on the system.  It was very clear in my mind when I wrote "When Corporations Rule the World".  I’m not talking about bad people; I want people to understand the bad systems.  By the time I got to writing "The Great Turning", which was after 9/11, and we were seeing the Bush administration and Enron and all that kind of crap.  Phew!  You know, I got to face up to this.  There are some bad people too.  They got some serious sh*t going on.  And so, you know, in "The Great Turning", I explicitly talk about…

 

Kall: Good thing we’re off the radio now and on to the recording. 

 

Korten: OH, yeah.  You can blot that out. 

 

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