Metrist
The Living Force
Periodically, sex scandals come out, and it makes you wonder if it is actual news or morality plays... Since these always involve high profile people - and it wouldn't be very newsworthy otherwise; these could be scandal boogyman playing out a drama that serves to keep the high profile people inline, because they have dossiers on everyone's sexual secrets. And they come out as reminders possibly ahead of or in concert with an agenda to suppress opposition. Or quell a crisis.
So, it is a control avenue where morality is in the service of exploitation with scandal as it's leverage.
And so, even if it isn't an ongoing method, high profile people represent opportunities to make it a method. And what is politics but opportunism?
So, it is often commented and hoped that a scandal will blow open and all the dossiers revealed, and all people involved will be imprisoned, or lose their positions. But it is a 'too big to fail' kind of thing because it has more value as a morality play.
So, it is a control avenue where morality is in the service of exploitation with scandal as it's leverage.
And so, even if it isn't an ongoing method, high profile people represent opportunities to make it a method. And what is politics but opportunism?
So, it is often commented and hoped that a scandal will blow open and all the dossiers revealed, and all people involved will be imprisoned, or lose their positions. But it is a 'too big to fail' kind of thing because it has more value as a morality play.