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More Enron Flashcards

1
Q

The greatest of these [aspects of humanity]…

A

Is money”

Skilling - power/greed

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2
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Let’s. Fucking.

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Play”

Skilling - greed/power

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3
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“That’s cause you’re…

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Weak”

Skilling to Fastow - power/masculinity

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4
Q

“You want..

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mine?”

Fastow offering shoes to skilling - power play/ ingratiating

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5
Q

“Hey fuck it…

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Two guys in a room”

Fastow imitating Skilling’s expletive lexis “those Washington fucks”

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6
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Skilling “gets

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On the floor”

Loss of power

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7
Q

“I hope

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Your dick falls off”
Prostitute to Skilling
Power loss

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8
Q

“In a bathrobe and

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Eating a Twinkie”

Describing Skilling - power loss

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9
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“He ups Fastow’s…

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Speed again” on a running machine

Power play/masculinity

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10
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Skilling had “death

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weekends”

Masculinity and hubris

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11
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“Let’s rape…

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this motherfucker”

Trader - masculinity and aggression

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12
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“Andy Fastow”

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Skilling - formal to show hubris and masculinity

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13
Q

A trader “shows him….

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His penis”

Demeaning Fastow - masculinity

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14
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“I’m fucking

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Smart!”

Skilling - hubris/entitlement

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15
Q

“Some people are…

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Fucking idiots”

Skilling - hubris/entitlement

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16
Q

“Every extraordinary thing…

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was conceived by a man alone”

Skilling - entitlement/masculinity

17
Q

“She left me…

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But I LEFT her”

Skilling - entitlement, business and relationships

18
Q

“When I’m…

A

CFO”

Fastow - entitlement

19
Q

“I don’t want to

A

Work for you”

Skilling to roe - entitlement/sexism

20
Q

“There’s nothing Skilling…

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Don’t know”

Trader - illusion/power

21
Q

“Magical…

A

music playing”

looking at the ideology of Enron - illusion vs reality

22
Q

“Skilling looks down…

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On the Enron he envisioned beneath him”

Messianic/god like creator - illusions vs reality of traders

23
Q

“You [skilling] seem to know where…

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The money is coming from”

Reporter - illusion vs reality

24
Q

Fastow is in his “shady…” below physically and economically …Enron above “like a large…

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lair….sustaining…supportive web”

Illusion vs reality

25
Q

“Clever

A

girls”

Fastow - insubstantial computer programme manifests as raptors - illusion vs reality

26
Q

“Ok”

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Tautologous self serving and cyclical response to the suggestion of LJM repeated 9 time
Illusion vs reality!

27
Q

“In a corporate

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boardroom”

sex and business mixed

28
Q

“In the Enron

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jet”

sex and business mixed

29
Q

“only thing that keeps their hands..

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Off their dicks and into work”

Skilling - money and relationships confused priorities

30
Q

To succeed in business you need

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Honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake those you’ve got it made”
Groucho Marx

English: Faustus and Enron (3 decks)

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