Why should Dionysian orgies and Satanic initiation rituals be the exclusive province of a tiny elite?
Yes, I know what you mean.
But all kinds of incredibly nasty things happened behind closed doors in backwoodsy places, even long ago.
Grotesque incest, the selling of unwanted children to predators, love-triangle murders, pedophilia of every type, not new. Just more visible because of inexpensive, uncensored distribution channels. Sorry to be cynical.
You’re right, and I’m not excusing or overlooking that.
More subtle, but maybe just as damaging, is the mental and emotional abuse that happens among the poor. Nietzsche wrote, “when it rains, the poor stay inside and provoke one another’s grievances and make one another miserable. This is the true poverty of the poor.”
I think our supposed elites should act as moral exemplars instead of trashy celebrities. The fact that they don’t excuses hurtful and immoral behavior among the poor and the middle class.
JMHO (note: I’m not religious, but not an atheist or agnostic either)
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