![]() Next, we talk with Laurette Lynn of Unplugged Mom Radio about how the best option for educating our children may be for parents to take their kids out of the school system entirely to learn critical thinking skills. We ask Joel about his recent book Childhood Under Siege, where he describes corporate influence on children through education and the modern medical system. Joel describes the reasons why neoliberalism can be appealing to us even though it is based on a limited understanding of human potential. In Extraenvironmentalist #40 we speak with Joel Bakan about how the dystopian possibilities imagined by his film The Corporation have become a reality. Though we are influenced by the corporate mindset from the moment we enter the school system as children, can we find alternatives to corporate control of our education, media and health? ![]() As global economies continue to reveal numbers indicating a spiraling trend of contraction in manufacturing and economic growth, corporations maintain enough power over our societies to stay afloat. The logic of neoliberalism behind our economic model is fading as its fundamental conclusions about human nature are reaching an extreme.
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