Friday, June 25, 2010

THE Times' in-house conservative, David Brooks, provides an excellent analysis of our current "culture of exposure." A quotation:

... the exposure ethos, with its relentless emphasis on destroying privacy and exposing impurities, has chased good people from public life, undermined public faith in institutions and elevated the trivial over the important.

So we get scoundrels, cynicism, and stupidity. We get what we deserve. As the old cliche goes, what goes around comes around.