贪婪的意识

贪婪是毁灭性的、残酷的、原始的…但它并不是什么新鲜事。自古以来就已经存在了。受人尊敬的期刊和期刊报告说“没什么”改变了过去一年在华尔街自金融崩溃。一些惊人的宣称它回到“一切照旧。“换句话说,意外的惊喜(?),世界上仍然贪婪exists-particularly钱。是的,贪婪确实存在并将继续,直到一个转换的意识需要我们所有人的。事实上在去年我们的“上帝”——钱神,是一个已经改变了很多。首先,有越来越多的人意识到贪得无厌的部分在古老的毁灭像雷曼兄弟和贝尔斯登公司在金融行业本身。美国国际集团(AIG)和美林(Merrill Lynch)存在于某种形式或其他,但因为他们以前伟大的影子。与流行的看法相反,大多数人在大街上,从上高水平的金融中间和底部层也知道他们的同事前来,很大程度上是投降的一次庆祝-现在vilified-free市场的商业模式。 Too little, too late, they lament. We should have seen it coming. Along with this private acknowledgement is the conviction that it won’t happen again—not on their watch anyway. Perhaps ironically, much of the Street feels similarly to the public in one major area: the government did not do its job to oversee and regulate the safety and protections of the marketplace. This is undisputedly true. In 2002, after the World Com and Enron debacles, Free Market Architect Alan Greenspan accurately stated that ''an infectious greed seemed to grip much of our business community.'' He was referring, of course, to the copycat “creative accounting” rules for major shareholder companies that subsequently declared bankruptcy, bringing investors down with them. In that same speech, the Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve stated, 'It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously.” In this is the key to our current economic dilemma. Alan Greenspan’s recognition of the dangers of outsized greed did not compel him to petition for change—nor did it for the rest of us. Public officials and citizens turned the other way—they know what they are doing, we thought. They know better than we, was our flawed conclusion. As modern societies of the 21^圣世纪,贪婪不应再冲击。美国和我们应该麻木。像战争、谋杀、强奸和任何类型的人类行为,侵犯了社会的个人和集体的权利,贪婪和无情的人类欲望的现实找到“表达途径”需要持续监督和警惕。贪婪的存在;因此保护社会的法律必须创建和执行。它是那么简单。我们保护社会不受惩罚杀人犯和强奸犯的法律框架。虽然这些人类灾难仍然存在,我们承认需要抑制这些行为与严重后果。保护社会的破坏性力量的贪婪需要类似的威慑。在华尔街和学生是钉在墙上是邪恶的化身,撕裂在每个印刷出版,垃圾和滥用媒体事件,国会的话语,和公共论坛,他们真的我们不满的源泉还是贪婪的人类失败本身?我们问华尔街赚钱,经济,创造财富和繁荣。 When they do so, we are happy - if we win. However, if we lose, they are villains, worse - criminals who broke no laws; we turn our backs on the very people and very system we formerly embraced. Because the cultural ethic of greed has been accepted as the Holy Grail for so long, we never questioned it until it turned against us. Only then did we cry bloody murder. So who is really responsible for the economic burdens we continue to bear? You, me, Wall Street, and the government officials who are charged with protecting us from ourselves. All of us have created the monster that now devours us. Like the Greek mythological king, Midas, for years everything we touched turned to gold. Like Midas, his good fortune inevitably becomes a curse. Midas touches food and water and turns them to gold, destroying his own sustenance. His beloved daughter turns to gold when he touches her hand. Midas grieves the loss of his daughter and begins to hate the fruits of wealth he so desired. The old king did not realize the high price he would pay for his greed. Neither did we in America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, France, China, India, Japan, and any other partner of the raw and unrestrained capitalism that had no brakes, no limits, no protections. We have been betrayed by our own worship of money and wealth—by our own Greed. The Money God, as Midas discovered, is shallow comfort in the light of real human need. We need love, family, friends, home, health, productive work, and financial security—all the things that are now threatened by our voracious appetite for more. So despite those who gloomily despair that nothing has changed—much has changed. Our dependence on financial speculation for security for one. Our reverence for wealth as the epitome of success and accomplishment for another. Our innocence about the super human powers of money creation we endowed our former money gods with; now in the wake of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, we know better. They are no more money gods than we; their feet are made of clay just as ours are too. Like Midas, those in government (Congress, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and others in public office before this year) that contributed directly to this colossal mess have to hide their donkey ears. Yet there is no one to blame if we are all not to blame. The society of greed we encouraged and embraced is the real source of our suffering. We are forever changed by the events of the past two years. Regulation is surely to come down the pike in heavy doses. Personal and individual freedoms will be diminished to protect the freedom of the whole. Inevitably, officials and money men will be weeded out and more cautious men and women will replace them. They are armed with the knowledge of their predecessor’s experience. Those that came before will be unfortunate casualties in the evolution of consciousness that is taking hold of the world of money—a world that by our very existence, we are all a part. An evolving consciousness is seeding within the modern mind that understands, after these last challenging years, that greed does indeed know no bounds. And the primitive belief in self-interest at any cost that dovetails with it, even to the destruction of the very society that supports it, also finds itself a wounded relic of an ancient past. As we embark on the dawn of the second decade in the new millennium, the consciousness of greed and its high and painful cost colors all that we do going forward. From this century on, a profound and necessary change has come to capitalist America---one that accompanies the knowledge that not all things that turn to gold are desired.

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