link to audio podcast.
Thanks to Dick Overfield for transcript checking
R.K.: And welcome
to the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio show WNJC 1360 AM out of Washington Township,
New Jersey reaching Metro Philly and South Jersey. Online at iTunes. Look for my name, Rob Kall, K-AL-L or go to
opednews.com/podcasts and you can find hundreds of interviews there.
My guest tonight is Joel Bakan. He is a professor at the University of
British Columbia, Faculty of Law. He
studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served as Law Clerk in
1985 for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada. He wrote the book and created the movie, The
Corporation:The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, one of the most
successful documentaries ever produced.
The most successful one ever produced in Canada. And more recently he is the author of, Childhood
Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children. Welcome to the show.
J.B.: Thanks for
having me on, Rob.
R.K.: It's a
pleasure. You have done such an
important work. I know it's been years
ago, but can you" the book and "The Corporation" movie, it seems that both the
books you've done and the movie are very related. Can you describe the message of both of them,
briefly and we can jump into some newer stuff?
J.B.: Well, I
suppose the message is that we have created an institution that is, if you were
to analogize it to a human being, would be psychopathic in terms of its
character and then we've given it increasing amounts of power to the point
where arguably it now plays a substantial role in governing society and in
governing those who allegedly govern us.
So, it's really an attempt to reveal
that; to challenge notions that corporations are benevolent or socially
responsible at their core and to just suggest that we the people need to
reestablish, or establish control of these institutions so that they can't sort
of willy-nilly trod upon public goods.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet (more...)
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