Guest Post: Goldman Sachs’ Psychology and Spirituality

June 30th, 2010 by Damon Vrabel

As a perfect case study illustrating how our economic system feeds our psychology and spirituality, one of CSPER’s tenets, I thought I’d characterize what some of my old colleagues from Harvard b-school and firms like Goldman have been saying…

“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 fraudulent Economics 101 they 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: They 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.

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  • Marc Authier
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Society is based today almost exclusively based today on ONE value.

    FEAR.

    Kill fear and you can start thinking straight. Fear is the tool of control used by the Pentagon CIA terrorists and the banksters. Maintain them in fear and you control them. In sum not that different as in the time of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Staline. I think we are regressing psychologically to those dark times since september 11th. The fear mongers are also the same people selling the wheapons and the CDO’s and laundering the opium money.

  • stacyherbert
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:24 am

    @Mike/Liverpool – good morning, Mike, why didn’t you tell me gold is geting killed?@?!@ And when is Jimmy Osmond coming to town?? Max and I want to plan a visit to see the concert.

  • Danny
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:24 am

    @Stacy
    A comment on S&P reviewing a downgrade of Moody’s?

    I thought a cartel works together, not against each other. Rats jumping ship?

  • stacyherbert
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:28 am

    @Danny – lol, that would be funny; but not really unexpected if you look at feudal history, once the peasants are eating mud the lords and monarchs have only each other to loot from

  • udee
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:35 am

    or they’re sociopaths and luciferians

  • Marc Authier
    Jun 30, 2010 at 9:56 am

    @Udee
    Luciferians. Satanist economic model based on FEAR. It’s a real old formula. The same used by the Babylonians. It’s about killing but more than that. Killing and having pleasure doing it. Empires are always runned by psychopaths and sociopaths. So are big multinationals.

  • Marc Authier
    Jun 30, 2010 at 10:06 am

    The roots of Goldmans Sachs psychology. BABYLONE. scum. Empires don’t change. Babylonian empire was one of the first scum empire. That’s what Goldman Sachs psychology is. Rape and plunder like Babylone.

  • In the end, we are all damned
    Jun 30, 2010 at 10:36 am

    I’ve seen this movie before: a similar exposition can be made re religion. That is, a critique of the system from the outside is not enough, one has to engage it and fight a position within (i believe). That is, if you want to change it, it is not going to be changed from the outside but from within. The “Damon Vrabels” of the world would be better suited to developing a competing internal model, otherwise, the system will never change because the players never change.

    However, in the end, the mathematics and economics stack up in favor of the large models. Anyone participating outside that framework does not have a chance. I guess one can make the argument that we collectively could make a “competing framework” but that would require character, will, and leadership…none of it I have seen in the US. I just read about it in history texts, so that is how I know it existed.

  • Brett Gallie
    Jun 30, 2010 at 11:04 am

    Leave poor Goldman alone…

    Who created the financial weapons of mass destruction ?

    The Economists, Financial Gurus and other evil people…

    They should be held to account for messing up the World Economy and lacking the Wisdom to see the consequences of their theories…

  • Marc Authier
    Jun 30, 2010 at 11:45 am

    @Brett

    Their religion is greed.

  • F. Beard
    Jun 30, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Kill fear and you can start thinking straight. Marc Authier

    Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Isaiah 35:4 [bold added]

    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8 [bold added]

    Too much fear can be fatal.

  • Fiatmentalist
    Jun 30, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    Isnt psychology and spirituality both made up terms? Isnt the effect to “externalise” or in some way to “make other” natural aspects of human life? There comes a time when you need to get to grips with the language you use.

  • Jim
    Jun 30, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Fear is failure and in the heart of a coward, virtue abideth not!

  • kwazimota
    Jun 30, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    pathologicol pride manufactured nurtured the great death of community and individuel ..grits thats the answer humility power

  • Jesse
    Jun 30, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Interesting and I thank you for this. I have linked to it.

  • Happy Dick
    Jun 30, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Vrabel is refreshing.

  • anti_fascist_freedom_fighter
    Jun 30, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Ain’t this just the chickens coming home to roost? It’s all the inevitable result of the 35 year “War on Drugs” that so benefited Oliver North and dick Cheney’s underground army. Today we have an estimated $700 Billion a year underground drug economy. $700 Billion. Now I ain’t no genius, but I’d say that somebody in the financial sector has to be pretty busy laundering all that drug money somehow, and I’d guess it has to be pretty institutionalized by now. You say:

    “So an economic system built on an immoral, unhealthy monetary system cannot help but breed immoral spirituality and unhealthy psychology over time.”

    Well, gosh oh golly! The spiritual and psychological criminal chickens have indeed come home to roost! America is little more than a huge criminal financial class, who’ve invented a huge phony drug money laundering system and passed it off as legit. The elite class is a criminal class. Every banskter’s mansion is built with a pile of drug money.

    Oh, I can hear what yer thinkin’: “Just shut up,. eat yer corn, and lay us some eggs! B’ gaawk! Cluck! Cluck!”