ossobuco wrote:Well, Dlowan, my interest is the intersection between my "so it goes" general view and the particular perturbation here because this guy built his career not only on going after Wall Street - which 'going after' I am not able to make judgements about because of my thoroughgoing ignorance about it all, though I gather it was a kind of burn the town effort - but also on his apparently extensive prosecution of prostitution rings. He has risen, I gather, as a fixer of evil doings.
I'm not so clear on how terribly he has acted re legality, Mann act stuff or not... but I see him as needing to have stepped down politically to improve the well being of, er, the running of New York. I'm not sure I'm right on that, but that's my opinion to date.
Not all our interest is from prurient puritanism yet again. I am also interested in Stila, but only as I am interested in many other people in various life situations, who seem like they could verbalize their opinions if they felt like it. I am clear that how she feels is not my business.
Interesting.
Mebbe as well as the prurient thing it's a bit like a classic Greek tragedy? Hubris and fate and all that.......the thing you most try to avoid and eschew being the thing that gets you?
But, honestly, the mechanism by which folk who make a point of condemning stuff vehemently thereby neatly, and seemingly inevitably, creating a mighty petard to be hoist by seems so blindingly common as to be almost hohum.
Mind you, this is doubtless an artifact of the attention paid to those who are so hoist. One assumes for every what'shisname, there are a thousand happy vehement condemners who do not do, or get caught doing, at least, that which they condemn.