"The Wolves of Psycho Street: America's Economic Enslavement by the Psychopathic Corporate Elite"

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The Wolves of Psycho Street: America's Economic Enslavement by the Psychopathic Corporate Elite

by Richard Gale & Gary Null - Oped News at Scott.net

http://www.sott.net/article/275379-The-Wolves-of-Psycho-Street-Americas-economic-enslavement-by-the-psychopathic-corporate-elite

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An aura of charm and charisma is one distinguishing trait corporate psychopaths have in common--think Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, Robert Ruben or Monsanto's Hugh Grant. Likewise, firms' public relations arms reimagine corporations in a glowing, positive light. Joel Bakan suggests that "the largest problematic myth today is the notion that corporations can be good and socially responsible. To me, that is like the charm of the psychopath because they actually can't be those things just as a psychopath can't. They can't be responsible to society when their required imperative and structure is to be responsible only to their shareholders." For this reason, he concludes, their ability to create a sense of themselves that is very charming is one reason why people buy into the "sheer lunacy" of the entire system.

In our conversation, Christopher Bayer noted that average Americans are vulnerable to being seduced. They want to believe what they hear and be charmed. "We all have the capacity to surrender and turn over our thinking and our will to people who we find charismatic and charming," says Bayer. Such likeability "is an insanely powerful force in human interaction. We are all vulnerable to selling our souls to the devil. I see this every day in my practice."

"There is an attitude structure among plutocrats. They don't look at the rest of us as valid, equal, worthy human beings. They take financial inventory constantly. They measure worth in terms of their portfolio size. I hear this constantly in my practice. This is at the root of how they see the world. They don't have empathy. They can't relate to it. The attitude structure is if you're not a multimillionaire, then you're a failure, there's something wrong with you and you're not a worthy human being. This is the guts of the psychology of it and they just can't relate to it."

This is the dividing line that separates the psychopaths running Wall Street, the multinational corporations, private military contractors and Washington from everyone else who desires a more just, equitable and sustainable nation and world. The psychopath lacks the ability to care for the stranger. This is why Jordan Belfort warns that their coldhearted behavior, void of any redeeming morals and ethics, destroys everything. As long as such people are placed in charge of banks and firms that control so much of our economic lives, and we continue to elect legislators and presidents based upon charm rather than true integrity and moral substance, the US as a nation is destined to continue on its long descent into psychopathology and towards a future of narcissistic bliss for an oligarchic elite and immense suffering for everyone else.

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1. Great article and ABSOLUTELY TRUE!

Doesn't matter which side of the aisle is in charge of our nation; our government is "OF", "BY" and "FOR" the extremely rich and the rest of US are of no consequence. The latest money grab by the wealthiest of the wealthy will end very badly for everyone with a total economic and financial collapse. Why the HELL are the psychopaths always put in charge?

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2. 'Such likeability "is an insanely powerful force in human interaction'

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3. Some of the banksters are followers. They get flattered when told there is

no fault in capitalism. They get drunk of being perfect. At being told they above all deserve to take meaning out of their lives. Then they willfully scapegoat the "others" in America who are not behaving in a capitalist way. Classic followers of psychopathic leadership. They need to be forced to admit that there is both good and bad in capitalism.