ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ties that strongly bind our institutions to DAC despite the opportunities for SSBS to improve most of our lives over the short and all long terms. Particularly, the chapter examines in detail the vicious cycle of power and influence that helps provide one explanation for DAC’s grip on global society and the persistent negative impact of our attachment to DAC. The chapter provides a critical questioning of this vicious cycle through which corporate power influences our society’s institutions through election financing, lobbying, corporate threats, influence over academia, the media, and labor.
