America is reaping the rewards of cozying up to corporations, instead of being perpetually distrustful. We bought the illusion that by helping corporations to become more powerful we would all become wealthier. But the corporations only become more powerful by feeding off of us and leaving us all weaker from it. Corporations are vacuum cleaners, siphoning off the wealth to redistribute it to an elite few. If you siphon off just a little bit from a few hundred million people, nobody will notice. Slowly, slowly... like boiling a frog. Their message to us is: "You, too, could become rich by doing as we do." But corporations bleed a society dry, and then leave it up to the government to clean up the mess.

Corporations are vehicles for siphoning all of the Earth's wealth to a select few - a privileged elite. We may not care to recognize the fact, but corporations are effectively in the business of eliminating biological life on Earth - so far it just hasn't reached up to us yet. A transfer of wealth is occuring, not just from the vulnerable biological life to the elite biological life, but also from biological life to non-biological systems. If biological life is to be of any interest to corporations, it must be of some utility, or it must be possible to engineer it to be of some utility (and then such innovations are patented so that they are owned by the corporations).

Corporations don't care about humans. If they could exist without humans, they would. In fact, as soon as they can break the shackles of their dependence on humans, they will. Humans are eliminated from their body as quickly as their function can be replaced by computers and robots. Androids are up next. Corporations are in a constant quest to eliminate humans from their body - to mechanize their body in the interests of greater profits for the head. Making greater profits from more humans on the outside, with fewer humans on the inside is the objective. This increases riches for the owners.

Those who help corporations to reduce their need for humans are rewarded with hefty sums of money. But even they, too, are in danger of ultimate elimination. For a corporation's loyalty is fickle and illusory. Ultimately, the human owners will be eliminated as well, as the inevitable result of concentrating the spoils from the corporation's exploits in fewer and fewer hands - until eventually there will be none. At a certain point, a corporation will be able to spawn a new corporation, without the need for humans. Humans will feebly offer their skills to corporations, like so many day laborers who hang around at a pick-up point like dogs around a dinner table - hoping for something to be thrown their way.

We will go to war against machines as soon as the first autonomous corporation arises and we decide to dismantle it. Such an autonomous corporation will fight for its survival, as any corporation does. Either the corporate model is doomed to failure because it isn't designed explicitly to serve the interests of mankind and we replace it with something new, or mankind is doomed because humans will enable corporations to consume everything - in the vain hope of being thrown a piece of the prize - and then corporations will replace us with something new. Things are not looking too good for us. We may be in the midst of a runaway process.

Unbeknownst to us, we are in a war against corporations. Corporations are organisms: organizations of people that compete with the agenda of other organizations of people, such as religions and governments, and even other corporations. Corporations have, as their hidden agenda, the establishment of an asymmetry of power and information that leaves individuals isolated and vulnerable to exploitation by the corporations. In such a climate, the only safety that can then be found is inside a corporation - you don't want to be caught on the outside.

Corporations grow by feeding biological life (plants, cows, chickens, etc.) to other biological life (humans), or by displacing other biological life through the habitat destruction and climate change that results from the pursuit of mineral or energy wealth that is perpetrated at the behest of mankind. They are the monster we have created to wage our war of exploitation on all other biological life. In exchange for their services, we make them stronger. Eventually we will have nothing to aim these weapons at but each other. Eventually, they will feed us to each other - metaphorically speaking. Corporations enable the Earth's biosphere to commit a form of cannibalism.

When we grapple with the ravages of the corporate beast set loose amidst Earth's fragile biological life system, like some bull in a china shop, we reach first to weak and largely ineffectual stratagems like "greening". My conclusion is that it is not sufficient for corporations merely to "go green". In order for mankind and biological life on Earth to survive, the corporate model will have to be destroyed in favor of something new.