Banks still just don't get that they now owe us Irish Independent
It would seem that the banks have fundamentally misunderstood what just happened. Of course, you could argue that the sense of entitlement being shown by top bankers now is no surprise. These are not, largely, guys like you and me. These are, in many cases, guys who were born and bred with a great sense of entitlement, a great welcome for themselves, a great sense of what the world owes them. They probably didn't go to the kinds of schools to which you and I went, where they gave you a few knocks in order to build in you a reasonable sense of your place in the world. These are mainly guys who went to the schools where they bred in one an inordinate confidence, an unrealistic confidence. These were schools that operated on the basis that confidence, even if it's not based on much, will serve you well in this life. No one knew back then that an overdose of confidence would one day ruin the world.
Imagine if you had fucked up the whole world. You would feel pretty bad about it. You would probably head off and hide in shame. But it is testament to the upbringing and the education that lots of these guys got that they fucked up the whole world but they still feel a chipper sense of entitlement. Remarkably, they still feel that the world that they have destroyed owes them something, something other than a lynching. It is a triumph of the classrooms and the playing fields of the finest schools.
