Even if guys like this were punished, the far vaster majority of those responsible would escape without any penalty.
It's more of an illusion that 'the talent' are the responsible shot callers rather than the reality. Sure they have some power, but they are not really in control of decisions etc as most people seem to think, even if they do wield some power.
There is a whole shadowy decision making apparatus behind them that is actually much vaster than they are. Even the politicians take their riding instructions from their parties and powerful stakeholders/interests etc, then they pass those onto yet more shadow men in the public service (who may have agendas of their own) for implementation etc.
He is sort of like the 'conscious mind' that we are aware of as the focus of our attention, but behind him is the vast 'unconscious' that is truly responsible for making decisions and governing his behavior that the public simply don't realize is actually there on a day to day basis.
Anyway, whatever the case, illusions of responsibility and control and so forth must be maintained to ensure the status quo goes on. It will probably suck to be him if this goes real, but he won't suffer too bad for anything. Just some public opprobrium probably. Maybe lose his job and some corporate sponsors if he gets tarnished too badly. Nothing as severe as what many of the clotshot victims will have suffered, and he has also benefited from his position personally in a big way with buckets of money and so forth, so it swings in roundabouts for him I guess.
I don't know why I'm going into all this. Probably because I'm not a fan of the whole shaleshow and think we might very well be better off without it.
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Date: 2022-08-22 03:59 am (UTC)It's more of an illusion that 'the talent' are the responsible shot callers rather than the reality. Sure they have some power, but they are not really in control of decisions etc as most people seem to think, even if they do wield some power.
There is a whole shadowy decision making apparatus behind them that is actually much vaster than they are. Even the politicians take their riding instructions from their parties and powerful stakeholders/interests etc, then they pass those onto yet more shadow men in the public service (who may have agendas of their own) for implementation etc.
He is sort of like the 'conscious mind' that we are aware of as the focus of our attention, but behind him is the vast 'unconscious' that is truly responsible for making decisions and governing his behavior that the public simply don't realize is actually there on a day to day basis.
Anyway, whatever the case, illusions of responsibility and control and so forth must be maintained to ensure the status quo goes on. It will probably suck to be him if this goes real, but he won't suffer too bad for anything. Just some public opprobrium probably. Maybe lose his job and some corporate sponsors if he gets tarnished too badly. Nothing as severe as what many of the clotshot victims will have suffered, and he has also benefited from his position personally in a big way with buckets of money and so forth, so it swings in roundabouts for him I guess.
I don't know why I'm going into all this. Probably because I'm not a fan of the whole shaleshow and think we might very well be better off without it.