Ask The Yes Men 53
Agit-prop? Absurdist pranksterism? Unsubtly subversive PowerPoint-based performance art? Yes, Yes, and Yes. Specifically, The Yes Men, whose brand of straight-faced media manipulation has raised eyebrows at staged events and on international news, have agreed to answer questions about their activities. These include social engineering of a certain peculiar variety ("Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them"), and multi-media lampooning of major corporations and political bodies — and, sometimes, committing the results to film. (Their 2010 film The Yes Men Fix the World is CC-licensed; the torrent version includes a bonus short, the making of which is the subject of a lawsuit by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the target of a mock press conference it depicts.) So, please ask your questions of The Yes Men, bearing in mind (especially if you've never read them before) the Slashdot interview guidelines. (Major takeaway: for unrelated questions, please use separate posts.)
Re:How did it start? (Score:2, Informative)
Also the easiest to find the answer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
Re:At what point did Corporate Ethics Die? (Score:2, Informative)
When I was a wee lad, more than 3000 people were killed by Union Carbide in Bhopal, after several warnings, accidents and deaths were ignored by the top-level management. The CEO Warren Anderson is still leading a cushy life in a nice Florida neighborhood at a ripe age of 90.
I'm not sure when corporate ethics died, but it was before 1984.