Dear George,
Corporatism is a vibrant and dynamic system with a healthy addiction to growth for the sake of growth regardless of either blowback or negative consequences. For that matter, blowback and negative consequences are welcome because, in the end, both are potential revenue streams as Corporatism makes money trying to solve the very problems it created. It is a feedback loop drenched in black ink.
Growth is expressed in dollars, and all growth eventually reaches a tipping point in which further growth is possible only if money becomes funny money as with the infamous collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which turn liabilities into assets much as Jesus turned water into wine. This addiction to liquidity inevitably creates periodic financial crisis that allow the Fed to pump more cash into the system, which is morphed into even more funny money.
Efficiency is the KY Jelly that greases up the Corporatists push for growth at the expense of the proles. This push requires a rigid hierarchy in which wealth rests on a foundation of poverty and suffering. This hierarchy is maintained by a silken jackboot that seduces the proles into believing that Corporatism is a preordained reality and there is no alternative, even though, historically speaking, corporatism is a unique historical aberration, but who sweats history when Corporatism represents its end point, or so we’re told.
This silken jackboot enforces a rigid class system in which individuals die in the class into which they were born. There are exceptions. These are the rare proles who reach a fork in the road that forces them to choose between a life of crime or a Corporatist career. Some of them choose the latter. They are not to be confused with the proles who are issued a suit and a tie and plunked down in a cubicle where they function as white collar proles bent beneath the glass ceiling the limits their advancement (unless they are felons at heart.)
It is an elegant system that ensures stability and order, and it is clever in its execution as it uses the language of freedom to destroy freedom. Like all systems, it will turn to dust; but before it does the plutocracy will have made its fortune, which will leave is in a good position to purchase whatever system replaces Corporatism.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
5:27:04 AM 
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