Corp Magic :.
( Monday, September 18, 2006 )
What would you call beings which (a) don't have physical bodies, (b) seem relatively crafty, (c) can be in several places at once, and (d) at least in theory they're immortal?
Ghosts? Spirits? Gods? Demons? How about corporations?
I went down this quiz because of a question that popped up all the time: what the hell do the “suits” who work at a P.R. firm actually do?
A Public Relations expert, are in the business of creating and feeding Tulpas.
For those of you not so trained in the occult, Tulpa it's a word with roots in Tibetan Buddhism. A Tulpa is, more or less, a thought-form which is projected outwards and takes on some kind of existence in exterior reality.
The funny thing is that Tulpas are supposedly also able to take on a life of their own, outside the original intentions of the originator.
Corporations, A.K.A. “Biggest Motherfucka Tulpas in the West” are in fact, considered "artificial persons." The concept isn't as nutty as it sounds.
From a legal standpoint, corporations can do many of the same things that natural persons do, for example: buy and sell property, hire and fire, sue and be sued, and so on. In 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are "persons" having the same rights as human beings based on the 14th Amendment.
The joke is that this amendment was intended to protect the rights of former slaves, and since that day its helping to create a new breed of them via Marketing.
What most people don't know is that after the above-mentioned 1886 decision, artificial persons were held to have exactly the same legal rights as we natural folk.
Although the doctrine of personhood has been weakened since, even now lawyers argue that an attempt to sue a corporation for lying is an unconstitutional infringement on its First Amendment right to free speech.
So… briefly, a P.R. operator has to be able to keep alive this creatures. Regardless of any political or social opinion, Corporations (as an idea) are amazing. They're almost like a lifeform that evolved out of our consciousness with the intention to destroy us all. Some kind of Toxic Karma Monster side-effect of the industrial revolution, that are very different of anything else in creation, say for example, a mountain. It's humans that named the things “mountains”, but they were there already. And it's not like a computer which, although entirely manmade, can be seen and touched. The Corporation represents a living idea which is alive regardless of the people that rule them, those who trade them, even the products they use as an excuse for their existence.
A Corporation only exists because people say it does. You feed monsters like Nike, not only with your money, but also with your attention, in a daily vamp-like routine. All of them have a “vision” of where they want to be in a few years, and a “mission” to do.
The P.R. magicians, use the Lesser key of magic (to create illusions A.K.A. Corporative Image) to make other people be ready to be devoured by these creatures. Creepy isn’t it?