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There it was in black and white the terrible truth we'd all been too blind or too drunk or too scared to see.

Corporation equals corpse.

Are we blind? How could we miss it?

These fiendish undead entities shambling through the stock market,

gorging themselves on the green blood of commerce while we stood around like helpless cattle,

discussing their quarterly earnings reports and market capitalizations as if we were talking about something

natural, something human.

We've created monsters.

Not the cheap Hollywood kind that you can kill with a wooden steak or a silver bullet, but

something far more insidious.

Immortal paper demons in three-piece suits with teams of lawyers

for fangs. Take BlackRock, that trillion-dollar ghoul, squatting in its Manhattan castle,

like some bloated Count Dracula of finance. They don't even try to hide it anymore. What is dead may never die. Might as well be

their corporate motto. You have to force behaviors. And if you don't force behaviors, whether

it's gender or race, or just any way you want to say the composition of your team.

Texas pulls $8.5 billion from BlackRock in stunning blow to ESG movement.

And just when Missouri and Louisiana and Mississippi did this and Texas threatened to do it

last year, it made Larry Fink a BlackRock go from, we're going to control all your behavior,

run your life through the thousands of corporations we control. We control 80 plus percent

of all the corporations and wealth of the planet to, oh, no, no, no, we're not doing ESGs anymore.

We've abandoned that. They haven't abandoned it. They've abandoned the name, ESG, which is a corporate governance,

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