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To: Neocon who wrote (13904)	8/4/1999 7:53:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Didn't I say intra-? Anyway, the discussion won't lead us anywhere, future will show the facts. I would say the delegation of powers on consumers' way of life opens a channel for power-exertion uncontrolled by the will of the consumer majority. Also, corporations have much more freedom to choose their means and to change direction according to new situations than democratically controlled politicians. The public image and credibility of a CEO isn't that important, they don't have to take continuity and contingency into account so much. Also the public opinion can be weighted in a way very different from a political system, which has to count each vote equally if it is to be called democratic. A company, on the contrary, will so-to-say not count votes of those who are too poor to buy its' products. (Vote counting systems based on proportionality to the tax spent by the voter have been employed at several places in history.) I don't assume, btw, and you won't also, I think, that all dealings of corporations are open to public control - or knowledge. Disinforming the public is as much a means of market control by companies as a means of political control by political parties. All this only makes sense of course in a would-be scenario, provided one is willing to accept there is such shift of control associated with the stated disempowering of the federal government. What I am not sure of, and have assumed in a tentative prediction (in post directed at Derek) that the process is at least still reversible, as far as the federal government is concerned. Regards MNI. PS: Yesterday the Hemingway story - ah, I will move that to the Feelings or the Flicks thread.