Behind the mask

Recently Christian Aid published this calling for the way that TNC's etc are legislated for so that environmental and social responsibility is built in rather than optional. In the article from Green Futures "Turning the worm": the same kind of thing is suggested -is this an idea whose time is coming?

For a more radical suggestion try: rewritecode. From the AdBusters stable also comes another article on the historical role of corporations both as fomenters of revolution and then as counter-progressive and how the idea and practice of the corporation has evolved and the dangers of Multinational Agreement on Investment (MAI) -should it re-emerge.

In the Rewrite the code article a kind of nothing buttery with regard to the identity of corporations which says they are nothing but rules, decisions seems to be around. However I would question this: NT language about the Powers and the concept of emergence seems to suggest that we can assign them some kind of agency and identity. I do warm to the idea of 'genetic modification' of corporate entities. When we try to make them into machines for revenue generation problems accumulate because that's not all they are for and they are rather more chaotic than simple machines. We need rather to recall them to their God-given purposes as servants ['angels' if you like] of human welfare. This 'genetic modification' is known in scripture as 'spiritual warfare'. It seems to me that Christian Aid and others are involved precisely in this activity and so must we be.

Discuss... I know I will if I manage to get my hoped-for-PhD off the ground.