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fetish for the demons
This familiar sequence of volcanic eruption and cooling off illustrates yet again Max Weber’s notions of bureaucratization and the routinization of charisma. Post-modern financial institutions, a mobile faith like the Pentecosts, correspond to a global financial flow. from Slavoj Zizek:Thus, … Continue reading
speaking in tongues: old time religion
When religious ecstasy is the basis of the experience of faith. The immediate experience. The immediate sensation. Instant gratification. A direct connection to the messianic or its impending arrival. Glossolalia. Pentecostals believe that true religious experience is God sending down … Continue reading
CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Philips, Alison Gendar, Andres Serrano, Artur Rosman, Bob gass, Carolyn garago, Charles Lewis, Charles Lewis National Post, David faulkner, Edmund Burke, Elizabeth Lev, Fred Lehr, Geoffrey Robertson, Guy fawkes, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the younger, James Gillray, Job Orton, John Laughland, Jonathan Cook, Joseph H. Fichter, Kant, Karolina Sygula, Martin Buber, Massimo introvigne, Maurice S. Friedman, Michael Friedman, Paul Vitello, Peter Tatchell, Philip Jenkins, Pope Benedict, Rabbi Milton Balkany, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, Richard Dawkins, Sir Thomas More, Terry Nelson, Willaim Heath, William Heath, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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DEAD PEASANT CLAUSE
”The British parliamentary tradition, which we inherited, resisted 19th-century Chartist demands for universal suffrage, based on similar fears that the elites would lose out, until they realized, to their surprise and delight, that it wouldn’t happen after all due to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Capitalism: A Love Story, Charles Lewis, Documentary films, Ferdinand Pecora, Frank Genovese, Frank Genovese Babson College, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Michael Moore, Rick Salutin, Steve Fraser
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Who Moved The Cheese.
In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Moyers, Brian Griffiths, Carter Glass, Charles Lewis, Ferdinand Pecora, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, King Solomon, Larry Rubinoff, Lloyd Blankfein, Lya Graf, Matt Taibbi, michael Perino, National Post, Rolling Stone, Senator Duncan Fletcher, Simon Johnson, This too shall pass, Tim Collins
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Should Not the Shepherds Feed the Sheep
”Is Christianity and banking compatible? Yes,” said John Varley, chief executive of Barclays PLC. “And is Christianity and fair reward compatible? Yes.”… Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., told the Sunday Times of London he is “doing God’s … Continue reading