Friday, April 22, 2005
All you future business/economics majors must watch
Wall Street (1987). It has high adrenaline stock trading scenes, hostile takeovers, corporate espionage, shareholders, management and unions all battling it out amidst the machinations of unscrupulous investment bankers and their protege brokers. Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
"The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you." - Gordon Gekko, in his most notorious speech
(Wall Street) ~
Interviews can't get any more devious than one in which the principal interviewer
talks at you for 30 minutes while you nervously pick at your nails (under the table of course) and desperately try to make your murmurs of assent less monotonous. You keep thinking: the seemingly innocuous proceedings must have some hidden, insidious purpose - the friendly monologue some trick of psychological manipulation lulling you into a false sense of security - they are assessing your reactions (or non-reactions), your non-verbal cues, your tone of voice, your nervous tics - they are testing your (im)patience, your passivity, your non-combativeness? And the more innocent the conversation seems, the more deceptive this appearance must be, because
this is simply too good to be true.
Spending time around James Angleton is doing wonders for my paranoia.
words were spilled on Friday, April 22, 2005
