Back in 2007 I had recently learned about the banking system and how they create money at will for loans. A loan is money given that doesn't exist, it's only a negative entry in a ledger with the promise to pay back and zero out through the person borrowing paying it back. No one's bank account in the bank drops when money is lent out, because it's not existing money, it's new money. Debt created money.

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Banks have a rough ratio to keep actual monetary reserves relative to the amount they lend out, about 10:1. This is what is called fractional reserve banking, which is the banking system we have.

I once had an online friend who had just finished education (indoctrination) to work in a bank. I began to explain this to them, and they flipped out at me. They told me they work in a bank, they know how it works, this is not how it works, blah blah blah. That "friend" didn't want to talk to me anymore after that conversation.

What had happened? Their ego-defenses kicked in.

When someone is personal attached to something -- like a job, like the investment in time and money to be educated into something, and getting paid to do something for survival -- they can blind themselves to the actual reality of what they are doing. What people *personally* do is part of their identity and *personhood*. We become invested in what we do because it's *personal* to us and *associated* and *identified* with our *ego-personality-identity* construct. We want to think we are not doing wrong things in our jobs or other parts of our actions or behaviors in life. We want to think we are only good and doing right things, not evil or doing wrong things.

If we're involved in doing something that isn't "above board", i.e. that is wrong in some way, that is sometimes too hard of a truth to accept. The ego-"I"-self has "functions" you could say, and one of those is to protect and defend ourselves from having parts of our ego-personality-identity construct come under attack.

A threat is detected. Having a part of what we associate and identify with as part of who we are come under attack, means we risk losing that part of ourselves if we let it get destroyed. We don't want to let go of the things that we identify with as part of who we are. We hold on tight. We protect and guard it from harm. There is a fear of losing a part of ourselves.

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If you get into banking thinking it's a good choice in life, that like choice becomes part of what you do, who you are, your identity, your personhood, of your ego-personality-identity construct. When you're told of the wrongs being done, it's a contradiction, incongruence and shock to that construct of identity you have about yourself doing right things and not wrong things.

Rather than admit to a wrong, we defend it as if it was part of ourselves because we are engaged in supporting it or participating in it. What we do is part of who we are. We are attached to the way we do things and how we see ourselves relative to what we do. Rather than admitting we are wrong or doing something wrong and be able to let go and change from doing that wrong thing, we stay attached to it, defend it and keep doing it.

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We need to learn to let go of our subjective attachment to ourselves, and engage in objective detachment in order to honestly look at ourselves in the mirror without engaging in defensive reactions that keep us locked into creating negative outcomes into the world for ourselves or others.

It's hard to do, since our lack of understanding ourselves and lack of self-knowledge makes us attached to things unthinkingly and automatically defend them as part of unconscious survival mechanisms.

When it comes to a job attachment, there are two aspects of survival at play: 1) the survival of our current identity, the ego-personality-identity attachment of what we do as part of who we are and not wanting to admit wrong; and 2) the survival of our existence by getting paid for work in order to keep surviving.

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Survival is a primal drive, and a threat to survival results in programmed automated responses at either the psychological level alone, or coupled with with a physical response like running or fighting (fight-or-flight response) from fear for our survival. Even if we aren't physically in a fight, a threat to our psychological makeup, to the ego-personality-identity construct, will get us fighting to maintain the worldview or self-view we have.

Much of the responsive reactionary behaviors we have are unthinking, as in they are automatic, conditioned and programmed reactions that we don't even think of doing prior, despite being aware that we are doing them as they happen. We can also think defensively before we act and still engage in motivated responses from a survival or fear mindset.

Taking the time to honestly evaluate new information takes longer. Emotional stimulus motivates us into reacting quicker as well. Critical thinking is a valuable capacity to develop in order to better respond, to ameliorate our ability to response -- our response-ability.

Sometimes it's valid to be defensive and defend ourselves, certainly when it's against falsity and false accusations. To defend the truth and attack the falsity is understandable. Not everything that people say is true. There are bullshitters and assholes out there.

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