Enron critics Flashcards

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‘Jeffery Skilling: a…

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…marlovian over-reacher’

‘if they are not the top 2% we don’t want ‘em’

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‘capatalism exposed…

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…as contrick and illusion’

‘we need to create a company that exists purely to fulfil enron’s needs’

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3
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‘Skilling’s schemes are revealed…

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…for what they are: a fraudulant fantasy’

‘I can’t report taking loses right now’

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4
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‘spectacle was a way…

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…to keep the masses under control’

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5
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‘critique of the…

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…collapse and demise of power’

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6
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man is a…

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…brutish animal’

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When Samuel west was playing Skilling in 2009, he said, ‘

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it is difficult to evade the charisma of the protaganist and the seductive nature of his vision’

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8
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‘global complicity…

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…in money worship’

‘only came for the champagne’

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9
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‘humanity’s constant…

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…greed and stupidity’

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10
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what did Goold’s 2009 production make use of?

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intense political theatre to produce an almost belletically beautiful scene of trading floor mayhem. -entranced by sin

‘an orgy of speculation’

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‘stunned into political…

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…pacification by our insatiable capitalist desire’

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