fraudulent investments practices, their grotesquely huge and artificially bloated incomes, their wasteful and lavish lifestyles with affluence, while the average American sees her economic security erodes the more she strives to rely on honest work to reproduce her material life. Compounding their sense of failure is a subterranean feeling of guilt among speculators to the effect that their moral assumptions about the workings of American finance capitalism, as a component of our society, were pathetically false. That is, the chaos that plagues the financial system is partly the product of the weakening of our regulative agencies due to our Wall Street gods’ own cultish belief that left to its own the economic sphere would function best for the benefit of all, when in reality such a scheme only clears the way for socially harmful accumulative practices.
We also see a manifestation of this spiritual decline among average Americans, who recognize the fraudulent financial practices that originated the problems disrupting their economy but so far have chosen not to organize but allow so-called experts to provide the appropriate “quick fixes“ (even though the latter‘s knowledge, skills, technical wizardry have only served to fester and completely miss the onslaught of the recession.) In the last several months, they have learned to cope with an economy increasingly denying them a proper level of economic security and a dignified social existence based on their personal efforts, creativity, and occupational accomplishments. Millions have lost substantial portions of their savings and retirement benefits but also the only sure things they know as their best access to the “American Dream“: employment and a home. Furthermore most of them