The Devils We Know
By the staff of Flak Magazine

The familiar argument paints corporate America as a morass of unethical dealings, exploitation, blanded-for-the-masses art objects and/or manipulation of the public trust...a Rorschach blot so inky black and so misshapen as to be offensive to discriminating consumers of culture.

It's a position that the contributors below have heard and agreed with to some extent–if nothing else, you'd be hard-pressed to get one of them into a Starbucks–but they all gladly and eagerly do business with a host of corporations every day. In the light of a company whose product or service is particularly meaningful to them, they've turned their attentions to the dichotomy between the conventional attitude and the lives we all lead for insight into the unavoidable question posed by our consumer culture. To get into the feature, click through the graphic above.

— graphic by Sean Weitner (sean@flakmag.com)