Enron critics Flashcards
‘Jeffery Skilling: a…
…marlovian over-reacher’
‘if they are not the top 2% we don’t want ‘em’
‘capatalism exposed…
…as contrick and illusion’
‘we need to create a company that exists purely to fulfil enron’s needs’
‘Skilling’s schemes are revealed…
…for what they are: a fraudulant fantasy’
‘I can’t report taking loses right now’
‘spectacle was a way…
…to keep the masses under control’
‘critique of the…
…collapse and demise of power’
man is a…
…brutish animal’
When Samuel west was playing Skilling in 2009, he said, ‘
it is difficult to evade the charisma of the protaganist and the seductive nature of his vision’
‘global complicity…
…in money worship’
‘only came for the champagne’
‘humanity’s constant…
…greed and stupidity’
what did Goold’s 2009 production make use of?
intense political theatre to produce an almost belletically beautiful scene of trading floor mayhem. -entranced by sin
‘an orgy of speculation’
‘stunned into political…
…pacification by our insatiable capitalist desire’