In a few centuries, the history books might say that from the 1980s onwards, a fetishist cult prospered...The gods of this religion are the financial markets. Its temples are known as stock exchanges. Only the high priests and their acolytes can tread their holy ground. The faithful are called upon to commune with their market-god on television, on their computer screen, in the daily papers, on the radio or at the bank...
TO HEIGHTEN the power of the gods in the eyes of the faithful, commentators periodically declare that the gods have sent signals to governments to express their satisfaction or discontent. The Greek government and parliament have at last understood the message sent by the gods and adopted a drastic austerity plan that has the lower classes paying the price. But the gods are dissatisfied with Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland. Their governments, too, will have to contribute their ritual offerings...
The places where the gods are most likely to forcefully express their moods are Wall Street in New York, the City in London, and the Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo stock exchanges. To gauge their moods, special indicators have been devised: the Dow Jones in New York, the Nikkei in Tokyo, the CAC40 in France, the Footsie in London, the Dax in Frankfort...To appease the gods, governments must sacrifice...
Why are ordinary market operators given a religious aura? They are neither anonymous nor ethereal. They have names, addresses. They are the people in charge of the 200 biggest transnational corporations that control the world with the help of the G8, the G20 and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund...We have to put a stop to this death-breeding logic...In short, we must launch an anticapitalist project.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/05/19/worshiping-the-market-god
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