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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 20 June 2012 [View all]Demeter
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Hugh says:
June 20, 2012 at 4:37 am
Banksters, like Dimon, are the great villains of our times. They are our Stalins and Hitlers, Berias and Himmlers. They have the blood of tens of thousands of Americans on their hands each year. They have ruined the lives of tens of millions and have damaged the lives of hundreds of millions.
I am reminded of something Hannah Arendt wrote:
The world at large, on the other side, usually gets its first glimpse of a totalitarian movement through its front organizations. The sympathizers, who are to all appearances still innocuous fellow-citizens in a nontotalitarian society, can hardly be called single-minded fanatics; through them, the movements make their fantastic lies more generally acceptable, can spread their propaganda in milder, more respectable forms, until the whole atmosphere is poisoned with totalitarian elements which are hardly recognizable as such but appear to be normal political reactions or opinions.
Origins of Totalitarianism
Origins of Totalitarianism
Substitute kleptocracy for totalitarian movement and elites for front organizations. And you have the dynamic we see today. We look at the Romneys, Obamas, and Dimons of the world, and we continue to view them as part of the normal world. In the view of the normal world, they can at most be foolish, mistaken, incompetent. Viewing them as normal effectively blinds us to their criminality and downright viciousness. We must, like Arendt, peel back the layers of feigned normalcy to see the festering reality and putrid pathology beneath. When we can begin to see these luminaries of our elites on the level of say a particularly sick and twisted serial killer, then and only then will we begin to see them as they really are. Every shred and trapping of legitimacy, every benefit of the doubt we accord them is just so much cover for them to continue their looting and destruction.
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Up the Ante says:
June 20, 2012 at 5:40 am
.. the great villains of our times.
Like these guys ?,
Michael Duke
Lee Scott
David Glass
Sam Walton
Viewing them as normal effectively blinds us to their criminality and downright viciousness.
Probably exactly Dimons view of these guys, and what could be greater empowerment of Dimons looting ?
Iconic Villains sold to you.
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