FOOTNOTE TO DENIAL
15 March 2010 | By ken in SocietyInternet Virulence
In posting my last entry, I had no idea I would stir up a hornet’s nest of virulence – and certainly no intent to do so. Some of you may have noticed the comments posted on my blog over the weekend suggesting I was in cahoots with The New York Times or the S.E.C. – or possibly just deluded, incompetent, and hopelessly corrupt.
My intent was simply to contribute to understanding the human tendency to deny being victims of fraud. I never claimed to adjudicate the problems of specific investors, though some claims still do seem sillier than others. If anything, the virulence of the attacks confirms my point: it is often intolerably humiliating to accept having been victimized, and so the victims must direct their rage elsewhere.
Some commentators were threatening, while others tried to alert me to the extent of the campaign to discredit me. One person directed me to a website dedicated to attacking me. Some helpfully tried to fill me in on the facts of the case. In any event, the whole experience was enlightening if a bit alarming. I have managed to get most of the particularly offensive comments removed, though anything with information was retained. For those interested, enough remains to give you the flavor of the emotions aroused.
The whole process brought another issue into focus: the ease with which virulence expands and is amplified on the internet. Perhaps it is anonymity that opens the floodgates. Perhaps it’s the speed of electronic communication, the opportunity to react spontaneously, driven by unconsciously shaped emotions. Maybe it appeals to the latent grandiosity in all of us to speak to the crowds we imagine out there.
Whatever the reasons, I have a new respect for the power of the internet. We tend to think of it in terms of an “information explosion,” but there are emotional explosions worth thinking about as well.
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17 March 2010 | CMKXer For INES Said:
WHY ARE YOU TAKING DOWN ALL OUR COMMENTS THAT PROVE YOU WRONG KEN?????
If you want to make judgements on shareholders in this investment environment I would suggest educating yourself and doing some more reading.
You can find alot on this page.
http://www.deepcapture.com/wall-street-captures-the-sec/
Wall Street Captures the SEC
Posted on 26 January 2008 by Patrick Byrne
Capture of SEC by Wall Street is exactly what Harry Markopolos who discovered that Madoff was a fake and a ponsy sceme and reported that to SEC in the span for 10 years says in all of his interviews.
Now do you think that Harry Markopolos is also “crazy” for saying that after his experience of 10 years with SEC?
The most amazing part is that SEC actualy did “conduct” investigation into Madoff and gave him a OK no problems.. go on, which we know how it all ended.
Harry Markopolos (The Madoff Whistleblower) has published a book: “No one would listen”, so maybe you can go on and read that as well.
Your intentional, or unintentional, and just clumsy contribution Mr Ken Eisold is the message to all the shareholders that have been wronged is just to submit to the failure and losses and not to fight the system or establishement and not to ask questions or fight for corrections, and finnaly their investment.
In your hart of harts, I do not believe that was your intention or true belief, or I hope so, but it played out that way for whatever reasons involved, and we are where we are today.
06 April 2010 | cmkx shareholder Said:
Shame on you!
You really are one careless clueless person in the least, or one corrupt person at the worst Ken Eisold.
As much as I respect the psychology field, and love the subject, you are one twisted puppy at how you wrote about cmkx shareholders, and then erased all their comments on your blog.
Sick in a bad way.
you erased all the comments and replies from Cmkx shareholders in your 2 previous titles:
March 15, 2010
Footnote to Denial
Internet Virulence
March 12, 2010
Denying Our Financial MIstakes
Why We Can’t Face Facts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoglm_HcPzs The S.E.Cs 3.87 trillion dollar lawsuit TheAlyonaShow
Here is somebody making report on cmkx shareholders lawsuit against SEC commissioners that is not corrupt like your friend Noris Floyd or careless like you.