Joel Bakan is a Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, he also is an author, an attorney and a filmmaker.
This interview starts out with a discussion on Joel's aware-winning documentary "The Corporation" which analyzes the legal history of defining a corporation as a person and how the way corporations have to behave is very similar to how psychiatrists would diagnose a psychopath. When raising his own two children he realized how corporations became a powerful third force between him and his children leading to Joel felt like he was losing control of making the right choices for his children.
Joel talks about the history of corporate personhood, how forced advertising in schools has become normal in the US, how university finding through corporations is influencing the research, how children spent 8 hours a day with electronic media as well as the over-medication of children.
Joel's website : http://www.joelbakan.com
Time stamps for this interview :
0:01:25 Start of interview / Joel Bakan's movie "The Corporation"
0:03:35 Corporations fit the psychological definitions for psychopaths (recommended)
0:09:40 How corporations interfere with conscious parenting
0:13:00 The history of corporate personhood & links to childhood (highly recommended)
0:20:05 How do we treat children in our society ?
0:21:40 Forced advertising in American public schools (recommended)
0:24:40 University funding and drawing in money from corporations (recommended)
0:29:00 Reformating schools into private entities
0:30:45 Child labor - Minimum age in the US : 12 - Is this acceptable ?
0:34:30 Children using electronic media 8 hours a day
0:38:00 Sex, violence and family values - A necessary discourse around values
0:40:30 Over-medication of children - Psychiatry as a "true" science (recommended)
0:47:45 Marketing to newborns - Removing any moral constraints
0:50:15 Corporate campaigns that "sound" good - Fake appeal to youthful idealism
0:54:50 The benefit corporation - Modifying the self-interest principle (recommended)
0:59:00 Being a good parents means to become an active citizen
Listening to this interview is highly recommended. It is really eye-opening in many ways.
(Unfortunately the producer of this podcast (not David himself) has sold the website which hosted the podcast but has kept the rights to the podcast series. The series is currently not freely available but in case that changes it will be embedded here again. Sorry...)
This interview was conducted by Dr. David Van Nuys for the Wise Councel Podcast.
Additional information :
Joel Bakan's award-winning documentary "The Corporation" is available in the Resource section
Prof. Joel Bakan did an interview in April 2012 with Seth and Justin from the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast that is worth listening to but there are a few overlaps with the interview with Dr. Van Nuys. The interview starts at 02:20 and ends at 1:05:30 :
Download : https://xepodcasts.com/assets/podcasts/extraenvironmentalist/040-corporate-influence.mp3
