05-02-2009, 11:09 AM
Just to underline Brown and Co's complete ball-less complicity in these things (sorry wrong thread for this rant), yesterday saw the spectacle on the Daily Politics show of novelist Frederick Forsythe asking why no sanctions (legal or financial) had been imposed by the government on City bosses who used tax-payer rescue money to reward themselves with massive bonuses. The bonus system in the City has always been fronted as rewards for spectacular performances and profits made during the year. This time, however, it was spectacular losses and incredibly poor performance.
So Forsythe argued, why were they awarded? Answer because City boardrooms can award bonus to themselves without care or compunctions. And did.
Thereafter it was a pitiful sight to see assembled talking heads, including one government minister waffling on with reasons why the fat cats should not be sanctioned. The view - said the government minister - was that the City has to drive the country out of the looming chaos and the government therefore needs them.
Oh okay. Criminal negligence as a legal principle no longer holds it seems.
We didn't need them thar City fat cats to make this mess, but they did so out of sheer unadulterated greed, so now we apparently need them to solve it, but will they? And why should they anyway when they get so heavily rewarded for the chaos they already visited on us all.
Reward the guilty, punish the innocent and hold this up as the way forward.
Nice to see Gordo's high standards in action eh.
So Forsythe argued, why were they awarded? Answer because City boardrooms can award bonus to themselves without care or compunctions. And did.
Thereafter it was a pitiful sight to see assembled talking heads, including one government minister waffling on with reasons why the fat cats should not be sanctioned. The view - said the government minister - was that the City has to drive the country out of the looming chaos and the government therefore needs them.
Oh okay. Criminal negligence as a legal principle no longer holds it seems.
We didn't need them thar City fat cats to make this mess, but they did so out of sheer unadulterated greed, so now we apparently need them to solve it, but will they? And why should they anyway when they get so heavily rewarded for the chaos they already visited on us all.
Reward the guilty, punish the innocent and hold this up as the way forward.
Nice to see Gordo's high standards in action eh.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14