Homer: Spitzer’s no Greek
IN yet another instance of modern hubris, a powerful individual has fallen prey to the threads of The Fates. Recently, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer tumbled from his high, moral pedestal upon discovery that his patronage of the Emperor’s Club VIP, a high priced, international prostitution ring was public knowledge.
Many in the media are painting this as a great, Greek tragedy. I, for one, do not agree with these sentiments and feel this is a great success for Mr. Spitzer. Mistakes, faults, sins, call them what you will, but admitting these things publicly and openly allows us to move forward and grow as individuals. It is my sincere believe that Eliot Spitzer’s greatest days are not behind him but before him, if only he uses this misdeed as a catalyst for personal transformation.
This is not a tragedy, it is a triumph.
The Bruce offers an interesting angle, to be sure.
But I contend that Gov. Spitzer HAS experienced a transformation due to this misdeed. Rather than private, his is a very public transformation from “Sheriff of Wall Street” and Enemy of Corruption, to lying shill and damning confirmer of what political critics and social commentators have been shouting for years: that the system is flawed because the people are flawed.
It takes alot of chutzpah to go from waving one’s righteous stick of retribution one day to waving one’s naughty stick of prostitution the next.
I can already hear the chittering retort. It says, “But are you so sinless? How can you condemn?”
Because I have never fancied myself the governor of New York, nor promised fellow citizens to serve public interest and behave. And I especially haven’t made my living off of ruining other men’s lives. What’s good for the goose is good for the governor.
Don Lando
March 11, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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