Just like “Romeo and Juliet,” Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is about the inheritance of land, especially with respect to the concept of the legal monster (remember Juliet’s comment about her love being a “prodigious birth”). When Edward Shelley prevented his granddaughter, Mary, from inheriting the Shelley estate in the 1500s, Edward Coke went up against the Queen’s Serjeant Edmund Anderson (acting as an attorney) in a famous legal land dispute called Shelley’s Case. A few centuries later, Mary Wollstonecraft would marry Edward Shelley’s eighth great-grandson, Percy Bysshe, and she’d write a novel encoded with her own views on the corporate strawman and the legal monster with respect to property ownership.
In this video on Frankenstein, I address a touchy subject regarding corporate governance and how parliament/congress has undermined the concept of sovereignty. If the Declaration of Authority and Summons shared here last week is real, I’m wondering if Trump might have Frankenstein in his gun sights. I didn’t vote when I lived in the U.S. and didn’t trust either political side of the aisle, so I’m not a fan of Trump. But somebody needs to slay the corporate monster. Personally, I’m dubious that this would be Trump’s goal, especially since he recently praised King Charles III’s country for giving us the Magna Carta (the document that created corporate governance in the first place). But who knows? The world today is an episode of Twin Peaks and I can’t always see where it’s headed.
