Predators

LIKE TWO HUGE lumbering pugilists, samsung and apple, the world's wealthiest corporation, are, as is widely known, squaring off in a legal battle of gigantic proportions, arguing over who stole what from whom. Each accuses the other.

The contest is world wide. Already, in south korea, the courts have found both at fault, and has fined each something in the neighborhood of twenty to thiry thousand dollars, which, in the face of it, seems laughable. Evidently, the south korean civil court system has a deep appreciation for ironic, humorous symbolism.

And who knows how the verdict will play out in nations across the world. It might be that in some countries both are deemed guilty, while in others neither is, and in still others one or the other takes the blame.

So much for the enduring myth that there exists a single, huge international corporate financial complex, oppressing the rest of us. If anything, there is a global corporate culture in which large businesses incessantly tear at each other's throats, to the delight of the legal profession, and the entertainment and detriment of everyone else.

Thomas Jefferson, himself a lawyer, described lawyers as "perpetrators of quarrels."

Meanwhile, in america, the mass murder killing spree continues. This time right outside the empire state building. Could it be that there is a connection between the epidemic of violence and corporate conflict? Very possibly.

It is possible that there simply is insufficient material prosperity to satisfy the masses, and that what there is is quite heavily concentrated within the corporate community, creating a divided, angry, and violent global culture.

For now such questions will have to await clarification. Suffice to say that, in america all is as it always has been, only more so.   A future can be seen in which whatever wealth the human race produces is concentrated among the very few, while the rest of us beg for table scraps.

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