{Low Finance}[1st January 1988]

[Redbook4:275-276][19880101:2330b]{Low Finance}[1st January 1988]

19880101.2330

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T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] 19871225-31p.1421[,] Davenport-Hines [sic] reviewing books on financiers: draws attention to the extraordinary anger and violence of such people: 'These books give a glimpse into the abyss. Their themes are cruelty, hate and greed: egomaniacs, bullies, liars, blackmailers, wheedlers, toadies and fools brawl and swagger through their pages.' Apart from fools – I have often noticed that the term 'fool' nowadays is rarely used in its technical, or Tarot, meaning, which fact presumably reflects our A~ perspective* – these terms generally locate such men at or near A~, which is what one would expect.

Less expected is the {specific} behaviour: not at all the cool City Knight. Such behaviour, and other behaviour described (such as James Goldsmith's tantrums and personal threats), by financiers characterised as 'susceptible to irrationality', verges on insanity.** And that is what one would expect, as Individuals at A~ on the Outer Circle (TX Wheel of Fortune) are approaching the Fragmentation-Revolution-Simplification sector, (Anxiety & Nervous Breakdown – Schizophrenia) described previously.**** Men stuck (more-or-less) at A~ would therefore tend to be stuck with A~ symptoms.# It is Avarice (I nearly wrote (and meant) Envy), the vice at M~, which drives them there – and Envy, the vice at G~, which pulls them round again?#*

*{(Having it both ways?)}

**cf, []'s*** 'instability & self-destructiveness' (not the same as self-denial or self-control)

***{a Wall Street insider-dealer}

****[[Redbook4:225-229][19871214:2010c]{Schizophrenia (1)}[14th December 1987]]

#like Anger (this interestingly puts them in the same category as Michael Ryan, of the Hungerford massacre (ref [[Redbook4:67-70][19870821:1020]{Evil at Hungerford}[21st August 1987],] p67).

#*'Self is everything: community responsibility is a chimera' (T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] review, ibid).

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