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yerself · 12-02-2009, 10:14

Thought For The Day

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.

Lewis H. Lapham
1935-, American Essayist, Editor

12-02-2009, 10:14	#22
yerself God Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 3,212 Liked: 328 times Rep Power: 12994	Re: Stop The Bank Bonus's (Facebook) Thought For The Day It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life. Lewis H. Lapham 1935-, American Essayist, Editor __________________ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.