Douglas Rushkoff is excerpting his upcoming book Life Inc. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back over on BoingBoing. Apparently, we're neighbors -- he lives about five blocks away. And, like many before him, he finds the Slope (and the almighty Park Slope Parents listserv) to be indicative of What's Wrong With The World:

Park Slope, Brooklyn, is just a microcosm of the slippery slope upon which so many of us are finding ourselves these days. We live in a landscape tilted toward a set of behaviors and a way of making choices that go against our own better judgment, as well as our collective self-interest. Instead of collaborating with each other to ensure the best prospects for us all, we pursue short-term advantages over seemingly fixed resources through which we can compete more effectively against one another. In short, instead of acting like people, we act like corporations. When faced with a local mugging, the community of Park Slope first thought to protect its brand instead of its people.

First David Brooks and Wayne PA, now Rushkoff and Park Slope -- will the pundits never leave my neighborhoods alone?

But seriously, it looks like an interesting book on corporatism in modern life.