This is the inevitable result of allowing psychopaths to run us, and our world. Corporations control the market place (e.g., the food), the factories, the schools, the government, the world and us. As comedian George Carlin stated, "they own us." This ownership makes us vulnerable and destroys our freedom. Consider Carlin's speech (language may be offensive to some):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY4WlxO6i0
Thus is the power of affect arousal such as humor, horror, love, and sex in relationship to memory consolidation and understanding. (Weingartner, Hall, Murphy, and Weinstein, 1996).
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v263/n5575/abs/263311a0.html
It now appears that "we the people" are intent on enslaving all of nature along with 90% of our own human population. Does that "we" include you and me? Instead of cooperating within the Earth's processes, "we" attempt to control them. Likewise, our educational systems are about control and domination. The ethos is "line up, shut up and do as you're told." Our children are nothing more than McDonald's hamburgers where our choice, "have it your way", is revealed as a vicious joke. Whoops! That's Burger King's motto! Dumb ole me!
Corporate mentality is all about standardization alongside control and domination. In school, the emphasis on standardized education and tests is also about control and domination. To be dominated is actually to be "damned" in my view. Under corporate control, we are all dammed up and are not able to flow naturally. Perhaps our being damned is our Hell?
Regarding the divide and conquer ethos of our nation and corporations, Giroux states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
If the right-wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become 'dead zones of the imagination,' reduced to anti-public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory."
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