Less surprising still, perhaps, is the fact that our own LPS5 apparently considers this silly bit of psychobabble to be incisive psycho-financial journalism.
Nah. Come on, id, what about simply re-posting an article would lead you to believe that I consider that article "inclusive"?
I don't. It's far too simplistic to suggest any sort of hard science, although I certainly agree with his description of the tendencies of those individuals, whatever might be going on behind their eyes and between their ears. The calls for increasing amounts of regulation, the conspiracy theories, and all that - especially since March of 2000, LOL.
...[A] pseudo-psychological schlock piece suggesting that those calling attention to sleaze are really personality-disordered whiners.
Perhaps, although you don't seem to have read the article.
He doesn't identify individuals "calling attention to sleaze," nor does he write that people who are so-called victim-blamers necessarily have "personality-disorder[s]." What he does state is that that one major subgroup of the investor "culture" is characterized by a refusal to take responsibility for their own actions, and that across the spectrum of intensity it manifests itself from superficial suspicion and whining to truly disfunctional behaviors and the like.
C'mon LP, this is lame!
I think the name - "victim-blamer" - is a bit lame, as if the author was attempting to evoke the personality types of the Myers-Briggs tests or something to that effect.
If you are, indeed, professionally trained in this area, you should by all means email the author and/or TheStreet.com with your assertions to that effect.
But he's got the resultant actions of the individuals within that subset, whatever you want to call them and for whatever reason they undertake their flights of fancy, pegged. The portions I bolded say all that needs to be said, as I see it.
id (ego, superego--get it)?
Yes, I do. :) And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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