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Geldgierige Manager

Das archetypisch geladene Bild des vom Ego bestimmten Menschen ging öfters durch die Presse:
der geldgierige Manager mit seinem goldenen Fallschirm.

  • Er bedenkt sich selbst mit großzügigen Boni und
  • entlässt gleichzeitig große Teile der Belegschaft.
  • Er versteigt sich in gefährliche Spekulationen und
  • verlässt, wie die Ratte, das Schiff, noch bevor es gesunken ist.
  • Er verdient stattliche Gelder und meint, darauf einen Anspruch zu haben, ohne jedoch bereit zu sein, Verantwortung für seine Handlungen zu übernehmen.
  • Seine Handlungsmaxime ist aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn und Nach mir die Sintflut!

Reptilienmarketing – Josef Ackermann

Eine Personifikation des Ego-Archetyps ist der Schweizer Bankier Josef “Joe” Ackermann, der als Chef der Deutschen Bank im Jahr 2004 eine hohe Rendite bekannt gab und im gleichen Atemzug ankündigte, die Rendite im Jahr 2005 um 25 % steigern und 6.400 MitarbeiterInnen entlassen zu wollen. Dass er diesen Plan ausgerechnet einen Tag nach der Überschreitung der traurigen Rekordmarke bekannt gegeben hatte, bei dem die Arbeitslosenrate in Deutschland die 5-Millionen-Grenze überschritten hatte, machte die Sache noch pikanter – ein Schrei der Empörung schallte durch ganz Deutschland. Und Ackermann wurde zur Symbolfigur des geldgierigen, menschenfeindlichen und rücksichtslosen Managers.

 

Wie viel das tatsächlich mit seiner Persönlichkeit zu tun hat, oder wie sehr er zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort war und zur Projektionsfläche für einen lange angestauten kollektiven Ärger wurde, sei dahin gestellt.

 

Quelle: Artikel mit einem Portrait Josef Ackermann von Margrit Sprecher Ein Mann ackert für Deutschland,
Schweizer Wochenzeitschrift die Weltwoche, Ausgabe 42/2005

Egomanen

Es steht außer Frage, dass es diese Sorte von egomanen Menschen tatsächlich gibt, und dass sie für das Wohl vieler Menschen außerordentlich gefährlich sein können, vor allem dann, wenn sich Wirtschafts-Egoismus mit rücksichtsloser Intelligenz paart. Es geht um diesen Menschenschlag, den Fredmund Malik in Führen, Leisten, Leben als “Drei-Jahres-Wunder” bezeichnet:

 

Oder aber es liegt ein ganz anderer, viel gefährlicherer Fall vor: das multiple Drei-Jahres-Wunder. Das sind Leute, die scheinbar eine glanzvolle Karriere machen und manchmal bis in die Spitzenpositionen von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft kommen. Untersucht man ihre Lebensläufe aber etwas genauer, dann zeigt sich, dass sie nur eine Fähigkeit haben, diese aber perfekt beherrschen: Sie wissen, wann sie gehen müssen – und sie gehen immer genau ein halbes Jahr, bevor der “Mist” zu riechen beginnt, den sie hinterlassen. Nach außen hin haben sie glanzvolle Karrieren, in Wahrheit aber bleibt überall ein Scherbenhaufen zurück und oft auch eine “Blutspur”. Das sind keine Führungskräfte, schon gar nicht gute – oder gar Führer, sondern es sind Karrieristen. Fredmund Malik, Führen, Leisten, Leben, S. 71

Zitate zum Thema Wirtschaftshaie und Raubtierwirtschaft / Predatory economy and Fascism

Zitate allgemein

  • Jeder der glaubt, dass exponentielles Wachstum in einer endlichen Welt für immer weitergehen kann, ist entweder verrückt oder ein Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993) britisch-US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Systemtheoretiker, interdisziplinärer Philosoph, religiöser Mystiker, Quäker, Lehrer, Friedensaktivist, Dichter

 

  • Wenn ihr weiterhin die Sklaven der Banken sein wollt und für eure eigene Versklavung bezahlen wollt, dann lasst die Banken weiterhin das Geld erschaffen und die Kredite kontrollieren. Sir Josiah Charles Stamp (1880-1941) britischer Beamter, Industrieller, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Statistiker, Schriftsteller, Direktor der Bank of England (1928-1941)

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Personal avowals

  • Long ago, I made a promise that I would never act against the best interests or the excellence of my own people — that I would do my best to ensure that we were worthy of the stewardship of our world and that we did our best to leave a better world for generations yet to come. To make and keep such a promise is to understand that money and position are tools, not goals, and that death is not the worst thing that can happen. Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com, US American former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush, whistle blower on financial terrorism, president of Solari.com
  • Psychopaths who have come from higher socio-economic levels often are more socially adept and become white-collar embezzlers or unethical CEOs of large corporations and get involved with stock fraud. Some learn how to set up shell corporations, Ponzi schemes, and pseudocharities, or they become manipulators of the stock or commodities markets. Some become adept at politics and enter government where they become corrupt officials. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood, S. 191

 

  • An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war properly so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects. [...]
    The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil — man's greed. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi [LoC 760] (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: Non-Violence – The Greatest Force, presented by The World Tomorrow, 5. October 1926

 

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Encyclical "Charity in Truth", July 2009:

Pope Benedict called for a new world financial order ( "a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise") respecting the dignity of workers and looks out for the common good by prioritizing ethics and social responsibility over dividend returns.
He denounced the outsourcing work to the cheapest bidder thereby endangering the rights of workers. He demanded that workers be allowed to organize in unions to protect their rights and guarantee steady, decent employment. Pope urges financial order guided by ethics 7. July 2009

  • Profit is useful if it serves as a means toward an end. Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty. […]
    One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use — not abuse — of natural resources, based on a realization that the notion of 'efficiency' is not value-free. Pope Benedict XVI [LoC 570] (*1927) German theologian, 265th head of the Roman Catholic Church, since 2005, third encyclical of his pontificate "Charity in Truth", July 2009

 

  • The economy doesn't function with market self-regulation, but needs an ethical rationale to work for mankind. Man must be at the center of the economy, and the economy cannot be measured only by maximization of profit but rather according to the common good. Pope Benedict XVI [LoC 570] (*1927) German theologian, 265th head of the Roman Catholic Church, since 2005, visit to crisis-hit Spain, 18. August 2011

 


 

  • Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993) British US American economist, systems scientist, cofounder of General Systems Theory, religious mystic, Quaker, interdisciplinary philosopher, educator, peace activist, poet

 

  • Poverty is the new slavery. Rev. Jim Wallis (*1948) US American evangelical Christian writer, political activist

 

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The Warren Buffet Rule:

75% of the US Americans support Buffet's rule which is millionaires and billionaires are to pay taxes as everybody else. The people who believe in ranking not linking are losing control.

  • No wonder corporations became legal persons in the 1800s with the right to make contracts while living breathing female human beings couldn't make contracts without their husband's written permission. Last year with a conservative Supreme Court [...] corporations became such legal paper people that they gained an unlimited right to fund independent political ads all under the right of First Amendment Free Speech. Well, if corporations are people, then some of them should be in prison. Though I oppose corporeal punishment for actual people I wouldn't mind putting a lot of them on Death Row. Video presentation by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, writer, journalist, When Women Are People… and Corporations Are Not: Why the First Inequality Will Also Be the Last, presented by Bioneers Live, host Nina Simons, Bioneers Conference 2011, San Rafael, CA, 14. October 2011, Vimeo video, minute 24:20, 35:27 minutes duration, posted 10. November 2011

 

  • When you see
    - that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion,
    - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,
    - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors,
    - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you,
    - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice,
    you may know that your society is doomed.
    Ayn Rand [LoC 400] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

 

  • In 1879, American economist Francis Walker tried to explain why members of his profession were in such "bad odor amongst real people". He blamed it on their inability to understand why human behavior fails to comply with economic theory. We do not always act the way economists think we should, mainly because we're both less selfish and less rational than economists think we are. Economists are being indoctrinated into a cardboard version of human nature, which they hold true to such a degree that their own behavior has begun to resemble it. Psychological tests have shown that economics majors are more egoistic than the average college student. Exposure in class after class to the capitalist self-interest model apparently kills off whatever prosocial tendencies these students have to begin with. They give up trusting others, and conversely others give up trusting them. Hence the bad odor. Frans de Waal, Ph.D. (*1948) Dutch US-American Candler professor of of psychology and primate behavior, director of the Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, biologist, ethologist, author, speaker, The Age of Empathy. Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, S. 243, Crown, 1st edition, 22. September 2009

 

  • For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will.
    If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. David Rockefeller, Memoirs (his autobiography), chapter 27, pp. 404-405, Random House, New York, 1st Trade edition, 15. October 2002

 

  • We are grateful to 'The Washington Post', 'The New York Times', 'Time Magazine' and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. David Rockefeller, purportedly at a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, June 1991; as quoted by Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power. How the World Has Been Controlled by Powerful Men Without Your Knowledge, first issued 2000, The Book Tree, 6. May 2003

 

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Ego and profit driven business styles

  • In the business of global war, there is no profit in peaceful communities.
    In the business of global food, there is no profit in sustainable communities.
    In the business of toxins and drugs, there is no profit in healthy communities.
    In the business of lies and misinformation there is no profit in critical-thinking communities.
Anonymous

Englische Texte – English section on Predatory economics

Four developmental stages in ecosystems, brains, western economy, capitalism – Principle of 3 : 1

Biologic ecosystems
1.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
ParasiticVirusesLoC 0-135Appropriation and monopolizationFractioned mindset
2.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
PredatoryPredatorsLoC below 200"Eating and being eaten" / "Fuck or kill"Fractioned mindset
3.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
Competitive
LoC 175-199
MammaliansLoC_below_200
LoC_above_200
Survival of the fittestFractioned mindset
4.HUMANSymbiotic
(→Cooperative)
Cooperating Cell Aggregates
LoC 250-310Biotope, habitatBeginning of Field Consciousness

Source: Video lecture on futurism by Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Sodexho, Annual Meeting, Paris,
the difference between futuring and visioning, YouTube film, minute 19+ of 53:33 minutes duration, posted 6. June 2006
See also:
- Quotes by Elisabet Sahtouris, geobiologist (USA)
- Analogous animal and human evolution – Bruce H. Lipton

Brain development
1.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
ParasiticLoC Below 120Reptilian brain
Brainstem
UnconsciousDelta brain wavesEstablishing Taboos
2.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
PredatoryLoC 120+Limbic System
Mammalian brain
SubconsciousTheta brain wavesEstablishing Taboos
3.ANIMALISTIC
Non-integrous
CompetitiveLoC 155NeocortexDaytime consciousnessBeta brain wavesMaintaining Taboos
4.HUMANSymbiotic
(→Cooperative)
LoC 275Prefrontal CortexSuperconsciousnessAlpha brain wavesBreaking Taboos

See also:
- The four basic brains
- The Passage from Force driven Controlling Ego → self → Power dwelling SELF

Evolutionary theories: Darwinism – reduced and rediscovered
Dr. David Loye, trilogy Darwin and the Battle for 21st Century Mind,
Revolution and Counter Revolution (forthcoming), book I of the trilogy, epilogue, last quote
Darwin's Evolutionary Theory
reviewed by
Dr. David Loye1
Reduced Darwinism
Domination – Competition (1859)
19-20th century human mindset
Rediscovered Darwinism
Partnership – Cooperation (2007)
21st century human mindset
SociallySubhuman, inhuman, and inhumane evolutionFully human evolution
PoliticallyAdaptation and accommodationAssertion and aspiration
EconomicallySelfishness and greed as the key to wealth for the privilegedCaring and sharing to spread the global wealth
to the many
ScientificallyTruncated theory and story oriented to the deep past, applied spuriously to the presentFully human, action-animating theory and story oriented to today and the future.
Moral drive of human evolutionSurvival of the fittest and selfishness über allesLove and moral sensitivity
SpirituallyOriginal sin, a ferocious God of my people versus your people who has to be obeyedNo God at all or original blessing, merciful God
of all people, good will from on high and below,
favoring an abundant life for all

See also:
- Women's leadership superseding men's leadership
- Kosmologie

Economic systems
1.ENERGY-CONSUMINGParasiticInterest and compound interest in the Monetary systemLoC below 200
OT era
2.ENERGY-CONSUMINGPredatoryPrivate banking, debt creationLoC below 200
3.ENERGY-CONSUMINGCompetitiveInternational stock corporations (in western/industrial societies run by nearly only white male CEOs and board members)LoC 190-199
Concentrated
4.NURTURINGSymbiotic
Cooperative
[Local] Cooperative social economics / Global networkingLoC above 200

Source: Video lecture on futurism by Watts Wacker, US American futurist, Sodexho, Annual Meeting, Paris,
the difference between futuring and visioning, YouTube film, minute 19+ of 53:33 minutes duration, posted 6. June 2006
See also: Conventional Banking (Me) ⇔ Social Banking (No-me / Other) by Muhammad Yunus

Western capitalism – Power carriers and institutions – Otto Scharmer
Time
Frame
Stages of
Capitalism
Stages of
Economic Evolution
Challenge
Theme
Response:
Primary coordination mechanism
Dominant
Sector/Player
New Primary
Source of Power
17-18th centuriesPre-capitalism
LoC 180-1842
Mercantilist /
State‐driven
StabilityRegulation /
Hierarchy
1. State / governmentSticks
Punishment
18-19th centuriesCapitalism_1.0
LoC 1853
Capital /
Shareholder‐driven
GrowthMarket / competition1. State / government
2. Capital / business
Carrots
Incentives
19-20th centuriesCapitalism_2.0
LoC 190 until Aug 19874
Stakeholder
interest‐driven
Social free market
ExternalitiesNegotiation / dialog1. State / government
2. Capital / business
3. Civil society / NGO
Norms
21st centuryCapitalism_3.0
LoC above 2005
Shared ecosystem‐awareness‐drivenGlobal externalitiesCollective action arising from shared awareness and common will1. State / government
2. Capital / business
3. Civil society / NGOs
4. Cross‐sector productive communities
Actions arising
by presencing the emerging whole
Wall Street capitalism of “too big to fail” institutions → short-term financial profitability
Heads I win, tails you lose. Paul Krugman (1953) US American professor of economics and international affairs
“I win” – The average annual compensation for the top 50 Wall Street investment bankers was $590 million. [status 2007]
“You lose” – Taxpayers worldwide covered a multi-trillion bailout bills. [status 2008/2009]

Sources engl./German:

Compare to:
Low Ground ⇔ High Ground Interpretations of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory
Adolescent Self-interest-driven Reduced Darwinism (1859) ⇔ Darwinism rediscovered based on Mature Mutuality (2007)

Homo economicus

  • "Homo economicus" – His mind is wired to prioritize the bad (the toxic food, hidden snake, cuckolding friend, backstabbing peer) over the good.

An economic tale – A Businessman dumbfounded by a Fisherman

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An American businessman was at the pier of a Mexican fishing village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

 

The Mexican replied,

"Only a little while."

The American then asked why he didn't stay out longer and catch more fish.
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked,

"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said,

"I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life, senor."

 

The American scoffed,

"I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."

 

The fisherman asked,

"But senor, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied,

"15-20 years."
"But what then, senor?"

The American laughed and said,

"That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions, senor? Then what?"

The American said,

"Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

 

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Fourteen warning signs of fascism

List of signs of advanced domination / fascism
-No.-SignDescription
1.Powerful and continuing nationalismConstant public use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, flags, songs, paraphernalia
2.Disdain for the recognition of Human RightsDue to fear of enemies and the "need" for security human rights are denied to others. People look the other way or approve openly of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners.
3.Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying causeUnifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities, liberals, communists, socialists, terrorists.
4.Supremacy of the militaryThe military is glamorized and given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected.
5.Rampant sexismGovernments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
6.Controlled mass mediaMedia is directly or indirectly controlled by the government; the media is controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic with media spokespeople and executives. Censorship in wartimes.
7.Obsession with national securityFear is used as a motivational tool by the government.
8.Religion and government intertwinedFascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation and twisted religious rhetoric and terminology as a tool to manipulate public opinion.
9.Protection of corporate powerThe industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10.Suppression of labor powerLabor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed in fascist nations.
11.Disdain for Intellectuals and the ArtsFascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. The arts is openly attacked and not funded.
12.Obsession with crime and punishmentThe police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. Police abuses are overlooked.
13.Rampant cronyism and corruptionGroups of friends and associates appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability.
14.Fraudulent electionsElections are a sham or manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates.

 

Source: Derived from Laurence Britt, Fascism Anyone?, presented by Project of the Old American Century, 2002-2008

List of experts interviewed in the documentary Zeitgeist III: Moving Forward

 

Featured experts and interview partners in the video documentary Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, presented by Zeitgeistmovingforward.com, released 15. January 2011, YouTube film, 2:41:25 duration, posted 25. January 2011
largest non-profit independent film release in history

 

Excerpted clip from Zeitgeist Zeitgiest movie 3: Moving Forward, YouTube film
Video documentation / interviews with Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky, Dr. James Gilligan, Gabor MatéM.D. and Prof. Richard Wilkinson, The Genetics Myth, 13:57 minutes duration, posted 25. January 2011

 

Links zum Thema Wirtschaftshaie und Raubtierwirtschaft / Predatory economy and Fascism

Literatur

Literatur (engl.)

Externe Weblinks


Externe Weblinks (engl.)

  • Wikipedia entries Career, Homo economicus [concept in many economic theories of humans as rational and narrowly self-interested actors], Homo reciprocans [concept in some economic theories of humans as cooperative actors who are motivated by improving their environment], Narcissism

  • Laurence Britt, Fascism Anyone?, presented by Old American Century.org,
    14 Points of fascism: The warning signs
    Correspondences among the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet
    14 common characteristics of fascist regimes are listed and found in USA
  • Lessons From The Brain-Damaged Investor. Unusual Study Explores Links Between Emotion and Results. 'Neuroeconomics' on Wall Street, presented by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Spencer, 21. July 2005
    Applied neuroeconomics (neurofinance) study (using neurodiagnostic systems such as brain imaging and genetic analysis), Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Iowa, published in Journal of Psychological Science, June 2005
    People with brain damage (impaired ability to experience fear) outperformed other testpersons in an investment game. Risk-aversion can impede "rational investment decisions". 3 of the 4 brain damaged test investors had experienced personal bankruptcy in real life.

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