lesson-nine-Money-Madness.doc

Lesson Nine Money Madness1. antiquated joke: a joke which is of ancient origin but is still told today2. Ive been rooting for it: Ive been digging in the earth,by turning every piece of mud over,in order to find it.3. a testimony to the ambivalences and conflicts generated by money in our society: The fact that this joke has remained popular shows clearly that there are two conflicting attitudes towards money in our society.4. casino: a public gambling place with entertainments5. the promised goals of serenity and happiness: the expected results of being delivered from any anxiety or worry and of being guaranteed a comfortable life6. the fantasy of “miricles”: the dream of all sorts of gratification, such as the mentioned “serenity” and “happiness”,which one will have when he gets rich.7. fades in the shodows of disappointments and frustrations once it is obtained: Such dreams will fade when you do not suddenly find happiness after becoming rich.8. Power,travel,external security,free time,and other blessings are potentially available to the affluent.The blessings,unfortunately,are often mixed.: These things,believed to be good, are only promised to people struggling for money.However,when people do become rich,these things may not turn out the way they have been hoped for.9. sings it powerfully: forcefully conveys us this message in his song.10. success-oriented: having an inborn urge for success.11. walk the straight and narrow: lead a virtuous life.12. deny the flesh:resist physical and sexual pleasures.13. mixed messages: conflicting ideas14. They become amotivational in this regard: Nothing can motivate them to strive for money.15. follow fellow models of success: They try to do the same as those who previously were poor people like them but have now become rich.16. working all the shifts: working around the clock.17. Limited cash flow for rentals,purchase of equipment and inventory,employees salaries,and other expenses test,the physical and emotional stamina of even the very strong. : When the business firm is short of cash or has very limited cash for all these regular and necessary payments,even the stond-willed may suffer a physical or nervous breakdown.18. washout: complete failure;disaster19. physical,emotional,and economic deficits : insufficient physical stamina,lack of strong nerves,and shortage of capital.20. go down the drain: wasted or irretrievably lost21. truly giving everything: truly losing everything22. They heave all of their possessions into the hopper and make crushing contributions of self in the battle for material victory.23. They thrash about in the net society euphemistically terms workaholic,type-A,success-oriented,or excellent provider.: These overdetermind entrepreneurs are caught in the money net like fish ,thrashing about hopelessly.24. control and power transfers from them to the goal itself: Control and power leaves them and goes to the money goal.25. Means and ends are in total disarray.: Means and ends have changed places.26. The self and all of its potential richness is lost.: Money should not be everything.If you think it is ,then you will lose all other qualities of your life.27. With all the hype for everyone to save even a dollar at a time,it takes great discipline for those with small fixed incomes to pull dollars from a meager salary to place into a savings account which grows ever so slowly.: Although we are repeatedly told that is is laudable and easy too, to save even a dollar at a time,it actually takes emormous willpower for a person with a small income to do so.28. Reinforcements are weak.: Money added to the savings account is samall in amount.29. small-saving outlets: ways of saving a small amount of money at a time30. over and above: in addition to ;besides31. do not stray far from their offices: do not travel a long way to distant places for vacation,in order to save time as well as money32. who have “made it” from a poor childhood: whod rose out of a poor background but have become rich33. That quality of neurotic reasoning and unbalanced emotions insures that there are deep-seated inadequacy feelings: If a wealthy person feels constantly insecure like that,it will certainly mean that deep down he has an insatiable desire for more and more money.(We can take it for sure that insecurity feeliings and inadequacy feelings are always linked together.)34. enough sagegurards: adequate protections35. is in an excellent position for self-negating emotions: is most likely to develop inadequacy feelings36. Compounding insecurity feelings is stiff competition by peers: Bitter competition among the rich themselves will further intensify insecurity feelings.37. a rich determined-inadequate person : a wealthy person who has deep inadequacy feelings but is determined to win the money compettion against his peers.38. show up the big mouth: disgrace the braggart39. One-upmanship is typical: It is a common phenomenon that every rich person wants to keep a small lead over other rich people.40. money-power: power which comes with money41. Indirectly by association, money makes reaching such goals possible: It is the money of the rich that indirectly makes it possible for the unwealthy to get a share of the nice things.42. Even if there were no other reason than the concept of hoarding to explain the accumulation of money,that would be a strong enough motive to explain this magnetic phenomenon.: Even if all other explanations for rich people accumulating money failed,the concept of hoarding itself could be a valid explanation: they collect money just for the sake of collection,in the same way as some people love to collect stamps or coins.43. Freudians would probably observe as part of mans psycho-sexual development the powerful anal need to gather more and more greenbacks for their own sake : If you asked Freudians to explain this phenomenon when no other explanation seems available,they would probably explain it in psychoanalytical terms,and say that it is the powerful anal need that is at work,and that this need occurs at a certain point of a mans psycho-sexual development.44. The glee of feeding an obese bank account and the hyperexcitement of calling the stock broker to hear his monotonous voice tell of profit-making-and the lack of sensitivity in saving a dollar here and there at the expense of others-serve the strong base motive of pure greed.: When I put more money into my fat bank account,I feel happy.When I phone my stock broker and he tells me that the price of my shares has gone up,I feel happy.Similarly, when I try to spend my stingily so as to save one dollar here and another there,I feel happy.All this happiness of hyperexcitement satisfies our instinctive greed,which is our compelling reason for collectiong money for its own sake.45. valid human relationships: normal,healthy human relationships46. psyc