Goldman Sachs’ Spirituality and Psychology

Goldman Sachs’ Spirituality and Psychology
Posted on June 28, 2010 by dvrabel

As a perfect case study illustrating how our economic system feeds our psychology and spirituality, one of CSPER’s tenets, I thought I’d share what an old classmate from Harvard b-school, a Goldman MD, said earlier this week after stumbling on some of my material. It’s similar to what others have said…

“You’re off the deep end…I know I add value to my clients and to society at large and I am very comfortable with that.”

Of course claiming to “add value” is just repeating empty talking points from the fraudulent Economics 101 folks like this learned as students (see the first 4 lessons of Renaissance 2.0 to revisit the flaws of the economics taught in colleges today). This is an example of how the “best and brightest” have no real ability to think independently, but simply a good ability to memorize what the system tells them as kids so they become its best servants (no surprise, the latter half of Lesson 6 pt 3 mentions how the system builds conformity in us, not free thinking).

Most of you know the truth about Goldman by now–a parasite that uses debt and its membership in the unconstitutional money cartel (lesson 1) to feed on the productive economy, what little of it exists anymore–so I won’t go into that. What I want to do here is show how this ties to self-esteem (psychology) and sense of purpose in life (spirituality).

Psychology: These employees are “comfortable” with their roles in firms like Goldman. You can imagine the level of internal disconnect they have with the real impact their firm has on the population–the fact that their huge paychecks come from the indebtedness of the American people and being an inside cartel member. Not only do they have no intellectual understanding of it, but a big reason they don’t have an understanding is because they can’t face the truth. They stay in the academic clouds believing they “add value” because they can’t look for the truth without losing belief in their identity. It would be a psychological blow. The role we play in the economic system is inextricably tied to our psychology. So by avoiding the truth, they’re psychologically “very comfortable.” But this also means they’re psychologically narcissistic–narcissism is a dangerous disconnect from reality and truth.

Spirituality: They say they add value to “society at large.” That’s the key. They reach the realm of religion when they say that. It’s their raisson d’etre. They think they’re saving the world. Remember Goldman CEO Blankfein saying his firm does God’s work? Well, these folks show that they’ve been fully baptized into the cult. This is the type of mentality necessary to fuel the catastrophic destruction of society we’ve witnessed. Your average low-rent criminal mentality would NOT be enough to fuel what the Wall Street cartel has done to the world over the last several years. It takes spirituality, a belief that you’re serving a higher purpose, warped though it may be, to pull that off.

So I hope this helps make the case for CSPER and explain why I connected the S P and E together. The connection is critical. The economic system defines what we spend most of our waking hours doing, which means it can’t help but be a primary determinant of our psychology and spirituality. So an economic system built on an immoral, unhealthy monetary system cannot help but breed immoral spirituality and unhealthy psychology over time. It must be changed.

Source: http://csper.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/goldman-sachs-spirituality-and-psychology/