Briefly, A Few Words On DSK and AS

MEN WHO WANT THEIR CAKE & EAT IT TOO ARE IMMATURE BORES

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK WHAT OR WHO THESE INITIALS STAND FOR then you haven't been living on the same planet I have the past few days or you've been in some sort of drug or alcohol-induced stupor.

Nothing really surprises me anymore when I take time to reflect on the fallen state of our world and our innate sinful human nature, though I'm often momentarily shocked.

Two cases in point of shock, but not surprise, are the Dominique Strauss-Kahn caper with an African immigrant chamber maid at the Sofitel Hotel last Saturday (it was all about power and domination, not sex) and the love-child revelation of Arnold Schwarzenegger (to assuage his gargantuan ego and need for exotic excitement) with a woman on his household staff, whatever that means---I'm not sure I really want to know.

Both DSK--who's about-to-be- the erstwhile head of the IMF and a blogger at the HuffPo (oh that Arianna loves to smooze with anything that reeks of power!)---and AS are victims of their own grandiose sense of self-importance, power, privilege, false sense of superiority. Both these married men are victims of their own hair-raising sense of entitlement. Each is a master of their own decaying universes and examples that prove having it all in the worldly sense ain't really what's it's cracked up to be.

It never has been.

Neither is being a ladies man what's some say it's cracked up to be. When I think of womanizing men my antenae go up and---rightly or wrongly---I think of things like this. Ugh.

If you stop and coonsider it, is anyone really surprised by DSK or AS? Certainly Maria knew her husband was a womanizer on some level for years, maybe even before she married him. Maybe she thought she could reform him. Even so she had to be caught off-guard by how close it's been playing out to her everyday life. The fact that Arnold lived a double life with another woman in their home has to be incredibly painful to the core. And deeply embarrassing.

I could go on, but mercifully won't.

There is Shakespearian drama in falls such as these men may finally experience. Getting by with stuff for decades doesn't mean we will get by with them forever or there will never be any consequences. In fact delayed consequences and falls are often the worst kinds of all.

I don't delight in any way in watching all this unfold. In seeing grown men shatter themselves and fall on their own pitards. None of it is pretty, though perhaps somewhat instructive as cautionary tales. I think I should also add in this fallen world, but by the Grace of God go any of us.....