“In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters”….But What They’re Really Feeling Is…

[Me.]

GUILT. Oh they’ll deny it because to admit it would be admitting they did something wrong. But in the recesses if their minds and deep down, they know, not that the greed will allow them to rectify the situation because that also would be tantamount to admitting guilt. They know and they’re scared which is why they are so upset about the way they are viewed by a majority of Americans. The really smart ones know justice is headed their way but they don’t know how to stop the coming train wreck or the OWS.

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[valerief]

1. the last thing they're feeling is guilt. they couldn't operate the way they do if they were capable

of feeling guilt or shame.

They. Don't. Care.

[cutlassmama]

15. correct. Sociopaths don't feel guilt

[booley]

2. I don't think that's it

Not that I can read their minds BUT so far all the evidence I can see : what they've done and what they've said, is that they don't feel guilt.

They feel persecuted.

They have this sense of entitlement, that they are the architects of this perfect capitalist world and here we are, the filthy hippie serfs, messing everything up and whining.

They really don't see themselves as the problem. And so the problems continue.

[dkf]

3. Increasing Debt is the only way to keep the economy growing.

The bankers were trying to squeeze the last bit of it out, then the Govt took over producing it.

[Aerows]

5. "Increasing debt is the only way to keep the economy growing"

LOL.

There is so much outstanding debt floating around in the derivatives market that it outpaces the GDP of the entire globe put together 10x. You have too many people living high end with nothing to back them up as assets but paper. Eventually, it's going to come tumbling down - it has to. Robbing the Treasury via bailouts was one way that a few ensured that they would be protected through the inevitable default, but not so for everyone else.

Debt is largely a fiction when it expands past thousands and millions to billions. It just means that there aren't enough resources, period, and too many are hoarding too much of them. Guess what happens then? Yeah, people get sick and tired of that shit, and that's what the global revolutions are about. Too many people hoarding too many resources thinking they are divinely gifted to be the Masters of the Universe. Well, they screwed up and took too much.

Wise men know when enough is enough, and we don't have wise men ruling us financially.

[truedelphi]

6. + 10,000 n/t

[Aerows]

4. You assume the followers of Mammon have shame about following Mammon

They do not. They believe the highest a human being can obtain is more money and more power. Shame doesn't exist when it comes to power and money. They are ashamed of being with LESS money and power. The ends will always justify the means for these folks. Accept it, and then accept that for the good of us all, they have to be reined in. It's like keeping a child away from eating an entire bag of chocolates - you have to do it for their own good because they are incapable of doing it for themselves, or accepting the consequences.

[Brigid]

11. Only one problem with this.

They think they are the adults and we are the children. :(

[Aerows]

13. Exactly

And we need to take the government and our economy back from the id-driven children.

[Rex]

7. Of course they do, they have the backing of the US government.

All The People have is hope.

[woo me with science]

8. Nah.

http://www.ashoka.org/story/empathy-news-round-science-empathy

The Richer You Are, The More Disengaged You Become
Aimee Groth | Aug. 11, 2011, 12:26 PM | 3,905 | 13


How much empathy do you have? It largely depends upon your socioeconomic status.

“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” says Dacher Keltner, a University of California-Berkeley psychology professor. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.”

Keltner's latest co-authored work, “Social Class as Culture: The Convergence of Resources and Rank in the Social Realm,” affirms this.

(more at link)

[kestrel91316]

9. Sociopaths do not feel guilt.

[Demeter]

14. They do feel panic to the point of paranoia, though

[meow2u3]

17. Sociopaths value two things: money and power

The only time they shit their pants is when their power and ill-gotten fortune are threatened. They are scared--scared of being exposed as the criminals they are, and of having to pay back what they stole.

[Skidmore]

10. Not guilt. But they are trying to find a way to shut it down to hold onto the

status quo.

[Rex]

12. Which is impossible at this point.

They are grasping at straws and probably surprised at angry people everywhere demanding equality and justice.

WAKE UP WALL STREET...your time has come.

[meow2u3]

16. They're really afraid of being toppled, just like any tyrant

The overthrow of the rule by criminal international banks and corporations is going to happen, and some individuals in very high places are about to be brought down, frogmarched in handcuffs, and die an ignominious death. It's not a matter of if it's going to happen; it's a matter of when and how.

[moondust]

18. ...is malignant narcissism and gross arrogance. n/t