The Corporate Morality Mask

The Corporate Morality Mask

Several corporations have been moralizing to customers and using corporate power to censor information and influence politics in the name of better practices for quite some time. These corporations have altered their business practices to use social issues for influencing potential customers, limiting worker behavior and thought, and shaping legal policies in a psychological attempt to make customers believe a corporation has moral ethics or is worthy of emulation. This ridiculous proposition can be unmasked with every corporate spending report, do they spend most of their earnings on genuine attempts to better society for all people or do they plan events and reward loyal advocates for paying lip service to their mask of morality? Are they prone to extravagant displays of “benevolence” with media coverage and every possible manipulation of the event to advantage or do they just invest within communities without all the desired but unnecessary back patting and victory laps?

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Our Desire to Judge Others

Our Desire to Judge Others

Humans are ever assessing the physical characteristics and statements of others which can generate emotional responses when someone encountered rejects a different person’s appearance or behavior. Insults and hyperbolic words are generally employed to demonize many others inaccurately because a part of their appearance or ideology does not conform to that of the accuser. As history seemingly is repeating itself in this period of renewed tribalism via cultural battles some are intentionally misrepresenting opponents and practicing willful ignorance to bolster their ideological arguments. While new problems have manifest in the modern age, several are just evolved versions of prior dilemmas and that a unified society can overcome in time. However, unity is a rare modern commodity due to most influential groups maintaining position and status by dividing others and this negative strategy is a powerful one…

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