Who Controls our Government? The Psychopathic Corporate Elites of America

[Ichingcarpenter]

By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
Global Research, March 03, 2014
Progressive Radio and Global Research

s it only me or is there something fundamentally flawed with the people who are running our government, including the autocrats, technocrats and bureaucrats who number in the hundreds of thousands. Does it bother you that the Wall Street banks and major corporations, many of our academia and religious institutions and our medical, military and intelligence gathering complexes, Big Pharma and Big Insurance have their needs met at the expense of everyone else? They control our government. We don’t. Instead we fear our government.



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Several decades ago, finding an individual with strong psychopathic characteristics serving in an executive function at a major Wall Street bank or multinational corporation would have been almost unheard of. During the Great Generation following the Second World War, most people’s entire careers were often with a single company or firm. They climbed through the ranks based upon seniority and time spent at the firm. Because corporations and banks were more stable then, it was therefore incumbent that business leaders be psychological stable as well.

Today that has all changed. Given the dramatic deviations within high finance and large corporations, the business culture and ethics have degenerated and given way to a landscape of classical psychological derangement. The advent of radical deregulation, the rise of our present free market and the neoliberal capitalist paradigm has made way for a new dominant economic system that is fundamentally amoral, as Jerry Mander has elaborated upon in The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System. Within an amoral system we would expect to find chairmen, CEOs and executives who are also amoral and callous about the financial decisions and policies they make and that consequently have a profound deleterious impact on the lives of others.

Several studies investigating the psychopathic nature of our private industrial and financial systems and the executives leading these institutions have shed light on the underlying causes of our national economic woes during the past five presidential administrations. Percentage estimates of high level corporate executives who can be clinically diagnosed as psychopathic vary. Psychopathology for the general population is approximately one percent.


Much more: http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-controls-our-government-the-psychopathic-corporate-elites-of-america/5371627

[swilton]

1. In short

decades ago people were working to make the world a better place and to help their fellow man/woman. All that has changed and now all work for the profit incentive - whether or not the job helps anyone else is irrelevant. The worker is trained to be a cog in the wheel and works for corporate profits and/or personal gain and materialism rather than the community. Adorno identified a product of this being the culture industry - the notion that capitalism cultivates false psychological needs through which masses of societies can be manipulated.

[yurbud]

3. Eisenhower appointed a commission to fix Social Security composed of businessmen

when I red that much, I thought the punchline would be the first crippling of SS, but instead, I found that they made solid recommendations that I agreed must have made it work better and be stable longer.

Something happened in the ensuing decades to make those in the same positions today Hannibal Lector without the muzzle and straightjacket.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Who Controls our Government? Sociopaths. Members of "THE FAMILY." The Too Big To Fail's. They bought

the GOP outright, and they have the Democratic Party on loan.