Corporatia
They've reached a new level of corporate power. We're either facing large companies that monopolize not only the economy but also the way of life. They're the companies that use capitalism as a tool to get to the top and toss it in the dumpster in order to stay there. Likewise, we then have capitalism going to extremes by being simply overwhelming, and some going even further by bringing in competition to areas where it doesn't belong at all. In Snow Crash, for example we have the mafia heavily involved with the pizza business, which "...doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic." Now as you may know, Uncle Enzo and his family business are based in America, the country by the people, and for the people. The country where every high school drop-out and trailer park living jobless citizen is supposed to have the same hopes of getting rich as the next guy. But if you have the mafia going about their business, getting rid of their competition, and creating some deranged system of signed releases, debts, and favors...which all comes with "being part of the family", capitalism fizzles out and your left with the flat overly sweet giant monopolizing family that far too many people are forced to be apart o
On the other hand you have Capitalism going insane in the Metaverse where reality isn't a big player at all. The Metaverse is where things are supposed to be a sort of escape from reality, and ideal world, yet even here the chaos of corporate expansion is not broken away from. There are fluorescent Times Square and Las Vegas-esque commercials times ten flying at you from all directions. "The moment Hiro steps across the line separating his neighborhood from the Street, colored shapes begin to swoop down on him from all directions, like buzzards on fresh road kill. Animercials..." A bit of a turn off? Indeed it is, to have companies shoving advertising in your face at rapid fire. Yet back in reality, the few things that should be freely available to the public are not, "DIAL 1-800-THE COPS All Major Credit Cards." So in Snow Crash we are left with an ultra hyped up version of the world we live in today... power hungry, selfish, and information driven. "The American "politicians" who had come up with the deal did not understand the Oriente." Going global, trying to expand and encroach upon foreign countries and cultures just won't go smoothly if you don't expand your thinking to a more global level as well. The problem in Savages is that you have these big name CEO's sitting in their leather armchairs with their fancy Tiffany's desk lamps, and thinking about their afternoo
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Approximate Word count = 930
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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