Corporate Criminology
Let’s be honest with ourselves: we, as individuals, are born into organized groups. Whether functional or dysfunctional, families are organized groups. For many, particularly those in rural or suburban areas, extended families form another layer of organization. Beyond that, our communities, districts, provinces, states, countries, and all the spaces in between, above, or below are nothing more than organized groups of people. Sometimes we dress them up with fancy names—corporations, bylaws, constitutions—but at their core, they’re all collections of individuals banded together.
Even those who are born outside of traditional family structures—children who don’t know their parents—are still brought into organized systems, whether through state-run institutions, foster care, or the networks of strangers within churches, mosques, synagogues, or even cults. One way or another, humans find themselves woven into groups.
Some groups are impossible to miss. They wave their flags proudly, basking in visibility. Others are harder to identify—operating in shadows, often labeled as secret societies. But for those of us with a discerning eye, the façade of these organized structures is transparent. Let’s face it: this world is one colossal Ponzi scheme. So, let the games I was born into continue.
I’m not claiming an “[insert whutever] vs. everybody” mindset, as if I were some walking slogan emblazoned on a T-shirt. What I am saying is this: I am a sovereign individual, even amidst your member states, your institutions, and every organized group I encounter as a social being.
If you wish, we can continue playing these games of construction. That’s fine, because if there’s one thing I excel at, it’s dismantling and reconstructing frameworks and competencies.
But let me be clear, like Rome supposedly said to Hannibal: “Freedom or war—the choice is yours.” The truth is, it makes no difference to me. (And yes, that’s a paraphrase—because I wasn’t there to hear it myself, and history belongs to those with the privilege to tell it.)
Now, go run and tell that.
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