Rainbow Coalition of Scoundrels
Mark Sanford, Kanye West, Michael Duval, Serena Williams, and Joe Wilson. Poor impulse control, every one of them. All putting big feet into bigger mouths.
Black and white, male and female, but, interestingly enough, not rich and poor. All rather well to do. Mistaking good fortune with a license to commit first degree boorishness.
All public figures with a healthy dose of ego; ego that’s required to believe one deserves a national or international stage on which to peddle one’s wares.
And we forgive and forget. Back in 1996, Dick Morris, the now ubiquitous right wing pundit, was a trusted adviser to President Clinton and was forced to keep a low profile after being caught with a slightly different kind of foot in his mouth. Nice comeback, Dick.
As long as we let violators of our collective sense of decency off the hook as easily as we do, expect the cycle of outrage followed by apology followed by outrage followed by apology to continue.
As long as we re-elect or otherwise lionize those who flaunt characteristics that we admonish our children not to display, we’re getting our just desserts.
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Anomie…………
That’s where we are headed……or maybe we’re already there.
Durkheim and Merton (I actually can make reference to something I studied in school) noted what happens when there is a breakdown of behavioral norms.
How can you listen to all the lies that have been foisted upon us in the last few months and NOT be convinced that all the usual societal norms are falling by the wayside.
great single word for massive concept. i think something just short of a majority are there, and would imagine that re-habbing from anomie ain’t easy. thx much.
I don’t care who you are or what position in the world you hold, keeping your opinions to yourself when they could hurt someone else makes you a better person than anyone else. Just because you’re a celebrity or someone important doesn’t give you the right to say whatever you please whenever you please.