We live in a strange time in that the people in charge of the culture are at war with human biology in ways that we have never seen, at least not to this scale. In prior ages the religious would rage against vice, but that had some logic. A population of drinkers or gamblers is a drag on society. For most of human history scarcity was the the norm so society could not afford a lot of dead weight. Virtue had practical purposes.
Sexual taboos were mostly to keep the peace. Males compete with one another for females and females compete with one another for males. It should be easy to see how that can lead to trouble so cultures developed rules to limit violence and ritualized the competition. In the early middle ages, the Catholic Church implemented rules for sexual conduct to end things like cousin marriage, which people figured out was a problem.
Today, the people doing the ranting and raving about biology are religious fanatics from the Puritan tradition of Yankeedom. They’re driven by a desire to nose around in everyone’s business and push people around. There is a big hole where God used to exist and they deny their thing is a religion, but otherwise the people at the NYTimes could be sporting big buckles on their shoes and black hats.
He was not above seducing a young model by showing interest in her father’s cancer. He promised other women his mentorship and career advice before pushing them for sex acts. And he tried to use financial sleight of hand to keep his wife from finding out about his serial philandering.
Bill Cosby admitted to all of this and more over four days of intense questioning 10 years ago at a Philadelphia hotel, where he defended himself in a deposition for a lawsuit filed by a young woman who accused him of drugging and molesting her.
In other words, Cosby is like any other man. The drugging and raping stuff would be a crime, of course, but the rest of it is what every man does, particularly powerful men. It’s not clear Coz ever did any raping, as he has never admitted to any of it. Women seek the attention of high status males and high status males use that as a way to get them in the sack. Welcome to biological reality Graham and Sydney.
Even as Mr. Cosby denied he was a sexual predator who assaulted many women, he presented himself in the deposition as an unapologetic, cavalier playboy, someone who used a combination of fame, apparent concern and powerful sedatives in a calculated pursuit of young women — a profile at odds with the popular image he so long enjoyed, that of father figure and public moralist.
In the deposition, which Mr. Cosby has for years managed to keep private but was obtained by The New York Times, the entertainer comes across as alternately annoyed, mocking, occasionally charming and sometimes boastful, often blithely describing sexual encounters in graphic detail.
He talked of the 19-year-old aspiring model who sent him her poem and ended up on his sofa, where, Mr. Cosby said, she pleasured him with lotion.
He spoke with casual disregard about ending a relationship with another model so he could pursue other women. “Moving on,” was his phrase.
He suggested he was skilled in picking up the nonverbal cues that signal a woman’s consent.
“I think I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them,” he said.
Through it all, his manner was largely one of casual indifference.
Of course he is indifferent. He’s probably baffled that anyone would be shocked that he liked women. Cosby is from a generation when people were not surprised that men pursued women. We used to know these things but after decades of control by religious lunatics named Graham and Sydney many people are shocked to learn that Bruce Jenner is not the norm.
This turns up in the date rape nonsense. We used to know that some males will cheat in the pursuit of women. The “Spanish Fly” hoax of the 60’s and 70’s did not spring from nothing. Elixirs to make women horny and stupid have been around since the dawn of civilization. That’s why letting girls hang out with unattached males was greatly limited. People knew that some percentage of men would “take advantage” of young women.
Lunatics from the womyn’s studies departments, however, have made everyone forget that, so every weekend young girls get knee walking drunk with strange men and some percentage of them wake up regretting their choices. That’s why Graham and Sydney are so baffled by the Coz. For their whole lives they were taught that only monsters like Hitler did these things so they are properly outraged when Cosby is nonchalant about it.
Interest in Mr. Cosby’s deposition grew this month when a federal judge unsealed a 62-page memorandum of law in the case, which had been settled in 2006. The memorandum contained excerpts from the deposition, including Mr. Cosby’s acknowledgment that he had obtained quaaludes as part of his effort to have sex with women.
The parties have been prohibited from releasing the memorandum because of a confidentiality clause that was part of the settlement agreement, but the deposition itself was never sealed. This month, Ms. Constand’s lawyer asked the court to lift the confidentiality clause so her client would be free to release the nearly 1,000-page deposition transcript. The Times later learned that the transcript was already publicly available through a court reporting service.
What the Times leaves out is the judge should never have unsealed the documents, but he is a fellow fanatic so they just assume it is proper. This is something you always see with fanatics. The ends justify the means. When Obama was running for Senate, fanatics got sealed documents into the hands of the press in order to eliminate his competition. In California, a judge willy-nilly overturned a marriage referendum simply because he did not like the result.
Another aspect of this story that you see regularly with Progressive fanatics is the grudge. They never forget a slight. Cosby made the mistake of railing against black ghetto culture and siding with traditionalists over personal responsibility. The Cult never forgets and they eventually found a way to hang him.
Wouldn’t Cosby make for a great Democratic presidential candidate given his philandering track record? After having declared, Hilary should immediately withdraw from the race, saying she’ll devote all her energies to supporting him, and bake him some cookies.
The thing is, Cosby didn’t have to drug any of these young women to have sex with him, so why did he? If wealth and power are these fantastic sexual elixirs, then why didn’t Cosby just go with that? He even had the added bonus of celebrity. People are willing to forgive a lot from their cultural icons, but drugging women to have sex with them is probably not one of those forgivable things. It’s a shame he chose the criminal route as a means to his end, because he was one of the few well-known and respected black men who for years has spoken up about the destruction of the black family and cooesponding debasement of their culture.
Apparently he straddled the fence. He counted on and was covered by his fame and his “blackness” for years to do as he wished with a string of young women. He gained fame and respect for honestly speaking about the real problems with the Black family and it’s urban culture.
These two pursues were at odds. Now Bill understands that. If he had known this a decade ago he would have kept mum on the latter. Then he would not be having these problems now.
Government these days at any level will always do the easy things first. it is easier to pay an ‘executive’ to send emails about things to other ‘executives’ rather than hire someone to replace worn out roads. Emails are cheap, concrete and cement expensive.
In the UK most of the sewers were built in Victorian times. They are, in their own way, marvels of civil engineering. But they won’t last forever. As they decay and no one can be bothered to do anything about it, only the emergence of human waste on the streets might bring all sorts of issues (and diseases) out into the open.
Someone once said that we couldn’t build pyramid now, which may or may not be true. But we certainly can’t repair the roads that our forefathers laid down and haven’t the will to make the sewers hold up.
Rail projects, be they high speed or light rail, or whatever are vanity projects for Progressives. They are very much like stadiums- “…see? we’re a big city- we have light rail. You can take high speed rail from here to ‘wherever’…” I’m not a fan of public funding for stadiums, but at least pro sports (not necessarily the stadium projects themselves, mind you) are popular. Light and high speed rail are popular among the progs and the SJWs, but ordinary chuckleheads (and suburbanites, which to the progs are the same things, mostly) like their cars. That’s why the power of the state is being used to get people out of their cars. State governments and bureaucratic agencies like the Metro Council in Minnesota are being used to make war on the ‘burbs.
It’s not scarcity that’s preventing the repair of infrastructure. It’s more like a man taking his paycheck and spending it on booze instead of food. The money’s there, the food is there, but intercepting them is the pleasure to be gotten from alcohol, and that’s where the “resources” are going. We’re a people that can’t deny ourselves our pleasures, so the money is spent on fun and games, leaving nothing for those boring, prosaic infrastructure projects.
My city, in eastern Ontario, is typical. We live in a cold, snowy climate. It snows every year, sometimes a lot. Everybody knows this. Yet every year, it’s reported in January that the city’s snow removal budget is already exhausted. There’s no money for snow removal! Something that’s thoroughly predictable, and without which the city will simply not function. Yet all summer long, we’re treated to Bluesfest, Jazzfest, Gayfest, You-name-it-Fest, all of which are funded by the city. Who can be bothered worrying about snowplows when there’s fun and entertainment to be had?
I notice you mention scarcity as not being an issue anymore on a fairly regular basis. Whenever I read that I am reminded of the freeway bridge that collapsed in Minnesota. The bridge collapsed, not as a freak accident, but because the gov’t decided that there weren’t enough resources to repair it before it collapsed. I believe most rational people would believe that is cya bureaucratic bs. Yet as one looks around at our society, infrastructure put in place by previous generations is slowly collapsing. New York is building a new underground aqueduct to replace ones built 100+ years ago that are in danger of collapse, but with budget “cutbacks” (meaning not increasing as much as “needed”) it seems doubtful it will be completed in time. Los Angeles has lengthened the time between repaving streets to close to one hundred years, does anyone really think that is workable? I look at Detroit and just want to cry, the work of generations has been allowed to collapse because … New York may well know a scarcity of water, L.A. a scarcity of transportation, Detroit knows a scarcity of everything. You may say this is all “man made” and you would be correct, but isn’t that true of most scarcities? Rome collapsed, not because of a scarcity of resources, but because of their misallocation, much as we are doing. past generations built for the future, but it seems that as the gov’t gets larger the need to consume grows to the point where investing (truly investing, not spending called investing) is pushed off of the table. Governor Moonbeam (Brown) stopped the last freeway project in L.A. and declared freeways unneeded and a waste, now he wants to build high speed rail between Bakersfield and Fresno so Senator Feinstein’s husband can make another $billion. So we can’t pave the streets, but we can spend a few billion on a train between two dead cities that nobody will ride. there is still scarcity, not just of resources, but of accountability.
Politicians like cutting ribbons to open new roads and bridges named after them and payed for by other peoples money . They don’t get shit for maintaining old bridges with OPM.