The Frankenstein in your living room

RealCA
4 min readFeb 7, 2023
Frank wants you money

You have probably already heard, read or watched some Frankenstein histories. This is how Encyclopedia Britannica described it:

“Frankenstein, the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical “mad scientist” who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of motion pictures.

Shelley’s novel Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus(1818), is a combination of a Gothic horror story and science fiction. The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life. Though it initially seeks affection, the monster inspires loathing in everyone who meets it. Lonely and miserable, the monster turns upon its creator, who eventually loses his life.”

Let’s put that aside for a minute and talk about two other creatures created by humankind:

Governments and Companies

They were both created by people like Frankenstein. One of the fundamental differences between both is that Governments are designed to serve the people of specific regions (although lately, many times, that has yet to be confirmed), and…

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