Authority song
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Authority song
This morning, courtesy of Radnor's own David Brooks:
The old adversary culture of the intellectuals has turned into a mass adversarial cynicism. The common assumption is that elites are always hiding something. Public servants are in it for themselves. Those people at the top are nowhere near as smart or as wonderful as pure and all-knowing Me.
You end up with movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Parties that try to dispense with authority altogether. They reject hierarchies and leaders because they don’t believe in the concepts. The whole world should be like the Internet — a disbursed semianarchy in which authority is suspect and each individual is king.
New evidence surfaced Tuesday morning involving former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz.
According to KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, the State Attorney General’s Office says Schultz kept a secret file on former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky and related allegations of sex abuse.
And:
Also, the Commonwealth has come into possession of computer data (again, subpoenaed long ago but not received from Penn State until after the charges had been filed in this case) in the form of e-mails between Schultz, Curley and others that contradict their testimony before the Grand Jury.”
The report of a file maintained by Schultz, who was at the time in charge of Penn State campus security, comes a day after NBC news reported that former Penn State President Graham Spanier did not report alleged abuse to non-PSU authorities because, according to e-mails between he and other campus officials, he felt it would be 'humane' to Sandusky to not report the matter.
Those crazy citizens! Next thing they'll be claiming there's corruption in the Catholic Church! Where will it stop.
(Huge h/t for collecting this: Atrios)
This is the best you can do after staring into space all day at your desk? Talk about mailing it in...but you did get 2 day old Penn State news and a cheap shot at the church in, so I guess it was a productive day.— jimmymack- How does Governor Invisible sleep at night knowing he looked the other way and did nothing to prevent the pedophelia at Penn State?
Dopes, no change!— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine - I was expecting a chidish rant today about Glenn Beck's new contract. Still waiting for the outrage over fast and furious and solyndra. Tick, tock.— georgel
- Hows that project by the European elites doing?— RG
- "The common assumption is that elites are always hiding something".
Like Barry and the leaks...oh yeah, we won't talk about that. Never talk about something that really has relevance especially if it makes your person look bad again and again, just go after say...churchs yeah, churchs!!!....and they wonder why no one trusts these hack "journalists" !!! LOL!!!!— sarah89 - "All in all, I’m happy to know that once elites have destroyed everything, at least they’ll cry about the fact that the peasants don’t respect them anymore" . . . What a great way to sum it up. What Bobo doesn't get is that our power institutions are obsolete and are simply losing their legitimacy, au naturel. Doesn't anybody appreciate f---king history anymore?— montani semper liberi
- "a cheap shot at the church" . . . . yeah, only history's greatest, on-going crime syndicate. Oops, too cheap?— montani semper liberi
- Of course it depends on who you think are the "elites." I certainly don't trust the investment bankers to be on my side, but I don't have a high regard for them or their chosen profession. Scientists, who probably count as elite in my world, don't seem to be hiding anything (except for a few mostly low-level frauds). There is no evidence that our national legislators or most justices are elite, but I don't trust them anyway. But Brooks is right that most movements without leaders fail. There are limited exceptions: Alcoholics Anonymous does very well without leaders. Rotary changes leaders every year and is still effective. So it can be done. I would not count the Tea Party among the leaderless, although Brooks does; most of the members are being led (or more correctly misled) by Fox News and talk radio. The Occupy guys are struggling without leaders, but they are still around.— Archimedes
- David Brooks is an embarrassment to the New York Times.— demit
- "is that our power institutions are obsolete and are simply losing their legitimacy, au naturel."
Unfortunately, that causes them to act even more stupid and dangerous.— RG
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