Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder, by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, the authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy, write about the insanity of corporations. They say that in effect, corporations are legalized venues for sociopathic behaviors that destroy people's lives. Corporations get away with this behavior every day. Remember that Soros quote about being amoral--not immoral, but amoral. How is that not crazy? Coupled with the documentary, The Corporations, I am thinking that I'm not so crazy after all. I'm a sane person in an insane corporate world. This is exactly what David Edwards was talking about in his book, Burning All Illusions, in which he questioned the validity of psychoanalysis, claiming that people are having natural reactions to this insane illusory system in which we live. See the excerpted chapter, "The Wound Outside," that is from Burning All Illusions. I share a few paragraphs:

Thus we can see that corporate capitalism is fundamentally at odds with life. It is not even against our lives and for its own long-term survival; the logic of profit maximization in a free-market economy dictates that longer-term planning is subordinated to the needs of the day, the next quarter, the next financial year; and rarely beyond. Over and over again in this discussion we have surely been struck by the complete disregard the corporate system has for life generally - be it the poor of the Third World, the sanity of the first world, for the living creatures generally who get in the way. Concern for life just does not belong in the profit/loss equation. In our discussion of the desolated day-tripper, we saw that he was overwhelmed by a sense of deadness rooted in conformity. This is the real truth of the corporate industrial system-it is against life; it is a system for using living beings to create things, to create capital. To do this, it must turn human beings into producing and consuming devices that serve the needs of capital rather than the needs of human life. The environment provides the raw material for the machine, to be processed and transformed into profit, regardless of the needs of global environmental integrity.

Because this system is against life, a shadow of death is spreading over the planet-over the minds and lungs of European children, as over the people of East Timor, as over the poor of Africa, as over the peasants and rainforests of South America. It is the shadow of life sacrificed for non-life. Remarkably, this process is only able to continue because you and I continue to believe that it is really on the side of life, that it is really for our best, for the progress of man and all life. Once again, we may remind ourselves that, just as the fiend is said to speak in the name of God, so the corporate killing machine speaks in the name of life.

Morpheus summed up well the impact of this psychotic, deceptive system in The Matrix:

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it your entire life--like there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

This unnatural, deceptive corporate world is driving me mad. All day it bugs me as I see hints of the glitches in the matrix, and it bugs everybody. Are some of our "insane" people just more aware of these glitches, of the sickness of corporate socio-pathology? Do we have a higher degree of mental illness now more than ever? Mokhiber and Weissman propose getting rid of corporations. In the least, we need to take control of the world away from corporations.