I was just talking about the Time Magazine front page: Sex. Lies. Arrogance. What Makes Powerful Men Act Like Pigs”, May 30th and here we go again with Representative from New York
I will admit this one baffles me a little but it was THE subject at the water cooler at work. I realize that our new technology allows us to send pictures of your private parts to whomever you want to and high school kids have been caught doing that and maybe people older than that too but be serious, this is a Congressman, with a powerful position, a family and a constituency…what was he thinking.
Actually, this morning’s Free Press had a front page spread with pictures of the now many male “pigs” in power that were caught doing something sexually untoward.
I guess this has always been happening, especially in Congress and in the president’s office too but now there seems to be a flood of these men in the news.
Anthony Weiner was, I think, our first “Twitter” miscreant. He twitted his private parts to a bevy of young ladies but pressed the wrong button and everybody got a look at his part. He denied this for a week until he could not deny it anymore and then made a tearful apology which we have seen virtually hundreds of times to his wife, kids, family, and constituents BUT would not resign his elected post because he did not break the law; and he is correct.
Some people at work were saying that the new technology that we now posses brings out in men (and probably women) something that was always there, just waiting for the right technology to be invented? Well, I think that the internet has created or brought out many of people’s hidden desires, some morally questionable and we see evidence of that almost daily…but is this the new society…is this the new norm?
Are we using an old society’s moral parameters in judging these people? Is there a new developing paradigm in town?
Breaking the law is one thing but this new social interaction made possible by new technology is definitely a game changer…
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