Thought provoking article in Open Democracy about my book 'Graveyards of the Banks' (volume 1)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourking...
Graveyards of the Banks
"Bankers, says the current iconography, are greedy, amoral money grabbers.

I, too, once subscribed to that innocent belief. But the bankers I met during seven years of working on the graveyard shift at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe are nothing like as harmless as that.

What I saw during those seven seasons of midnights at the Bank was a brutal social Darwinist selection of the Fittest to Rule, an adoration of military style masculinity, and above all a cult of ‘leadership’ as an inborn trait that is supposed to make those ‘leaders’ genetically superior to the rest of us – and justifies their sadistic treatment of ‘inferiors’. Reluctantly, and over time, I began to admit to myself that there is a word for this kind of ideology although it is rarely used in this context. A word that is big and frightening. Let me take you a little further inside the Bank before I dare to voice it."
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Published on April 01, 2015 22:14
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