Paco Dennis
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"WHEN Jesus was trying to persuade his disciples to live fulfilling lives he warned against the corrupting perils of wealth and power with the memorable idiom about camels slipping more easily through the eye of a needle than rich men making it into heaven.
The rapper Notorious B.I.G riffed on the same issue: "Mo money, mo problems."
You can decide which chap had it snappier but both describe a universal issue that's plagued humanity for millennia: with great power comes great responsibility, but with great power also comes the impetus to act with unfettered entitlement, trampling anyone in your way.
If it wasn't so utterly serious, so bone-crunchingly grim, then watching the astounding fudges created by our alleged betters to excuse their tawdry behaviour would be almost entertaining.
Current headlines are dominated by three amigos, otherwise disparate figures brought together by the sheer force of their brass necked self-involvement.
Prime minister Boris Johnson, Prince Andrew and the tennis star Novak Djokovic, shamed across the front pages, all share in common the fact they are buoyed by the same lifting tide of entitlement, an entitlement so untroubled, so untrammelled, that it allows them to present absolute nonsense as fact."
4 min read
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opin...n-prince-andrew-novak-djokovic-show-contempt/
We are living in a time of radical transparency, especially on social media. There is overreach to be sure. But in significant ways, this exposing the emperor’s lack of clothes is an apolitical groundswell. It is tearing down the broken and rotten institutions and pushing bad actors previously shielded by their ivory towers into the spotlight. What happens when that spotlight dims, of course, is yet to be seen.
This is crucial. But we must acknowledge the uncharted territory we’re entering. We are left with important and uneasy questions about what’s built once the rubble of the elite is cleared — how we build a better, fairer culture, together as a country."
4 min read
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...wnfall-crumbling-america-s-elites-ncna1029966
The rapper Notorious B.I.G riffed on the same issue: "Mo money, mo problems."
You can decide which chap had it snappier but both describe a universal issue that's plagued humanity for millennia: with great power comes great responsibility, but with great power also comes the impetus to act with unfettered entitlement, trampling anyone in your way.
If it wasn't so utterly serious, so bone-crunchingly grim, then watching the astounding fudges created by our alleged betters to excuse their tawdry behaviour would be almost entertaining.
Current headlines are dominated by three amigos, otherwise disparate figures brought together by the sheer force of their brass necked self-involvement.
Prime minister Boris Johnson, Prince Andrew and the tennis star Novak Djokovic, shamed across the front pages, all share in common the fact they are buoyed by the same lifting tide of entitlement, an entitlement so untroubled, so untrammelled, that it allows them to present absolute nonsense as fact."
4 min read
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opin...n-prince-andrew-novak-djokovic-show-contempt/
Jeffrey Epstein's downfall and the crumbling of America's elites
"Society is tearing down the broken and rotten institutions and pushing bad actors previously shielded by their ivory towers into the spotlight.We are living in a time of radical transparency, especially on social media. There is overreach to be sure. But in significant ways, this exposing the emperor’s lack of clothes is an apolitical groundswell. It is tearing down the broken and rotten institutions and pushing bad actors previously shielded by their ivory towers into the spotlight. What happens when that spotlight dims, of course, is yet to be seen.
This is crucial. But we must acknowledge the uncharted territory we’re entering. We are left with important and uneasy questions about what’s built once the rubble of the elite is cleared — how we build a better, fairer culture, together as a country."
4 min read
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...wnfall-crumbling-america-s-elites-ncna1029966
