Business has Taken Over Everything

It had taken over nearly everything in the Fifties, when I was growing up - but with the advent of the Computer, it now reigns supreme.

Everyone knows this - but doesn't want to know it, because this is too frightening to contemplate. For one simple reason - Business is Bad for People. We now live in a world that is bad for us.

How this happened, is not hard to understand. The Reformation spawned the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution - and produced enormous wealth. And the resulting institutions, took Social Power into their hands.

My theory concentrates on the examination of Power - which is basically what Business is all about. It asks the question "What is in control, here?" And the answer is scary. So scary, I hesitate to go into it.

We have believed that God gave us control of the world. That we (with the help of God) were in control. But gradually, other forces - appeared, that were not part of this divine plan. And they gained control.

This can be clearly seen in the history of the United States in the 19th Century - as it emerged far different, from what it had been, when it went into it. Something happened to it - and that something was far-reaching! It now had a different Economy. An Industrial economy - and Big Business was born.

This is scary! So scary, we don't want to see it. But whether we see it or not - it happened, and is happening, right now.

It is only interested in making itself more powerful - and is not interested in making people more powerful.