If you are reading this Sunday Roundup, it means that those Rapture-ready believers predicting that Saturday would be Judgment Day were wrong. But earlier this week, a different kind of judgment day did arrive, in the form of the first comprehensive report on last year's Upper Big Branch mine disaster, which killed 29 workers. And a damning judgment it was, placing blame squarely on the mine's owner, and calling the tragedy "a cautionary tale of hubris." The same verdict could be applied to Dominique Strauss-Kahn who, on course to become president of France, felt entitled to take a detour to a hotel sexual assault. Paired with the latest news about the equally hubristic former governor of California, it made one long for more women leaders -- who, if you notice, never seem to find themselves accused of attempted rape or forced to admit to having a child with the household help.
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Angels?
The failure of American governance does not reside in sex but in lost values, character and loyalty to our Constitution and people.
America has lost her values, both the ones that we used to kind of follow and all those delusional ones...how we could hold democracy in such high regard and yet work against the elected governments since they just were so silly as to not follow orders from Washington...
We need people that believe in America and believe in Americans...not people that are elected by corporate money to do corporate bidding.
I think those days of men are the best are beginning to draw to a close.
Or the hubris of nuclear power companies that thinks they can get away with building faulty nuclear power plants in an area of the world known for its earthquakes.
What the man made, human caused environmental disasters, mining disaster, and sexual cheating and lying and harassment by men in power have in common is cheating and lying, going behind the backs of people who trust them (wives, workers) and trying to get away with murder, quite literally.
So is it really hubris, or is it just another example of sociopathic behavior?
As for the gender dispute, here, the male brain and the female brain have been proven to be dramatically different in one respect: empathy. Women have it hardwired into us, men have to learn it. If a society does not MAKE men learn to be empathic, they won't.
Who demands empathy from leaders? Who demands that the "corporate human" be empathic and actually care if "he" kills miners and destroys ecosystems and the livelihoods and homes of thousands in the Gulf? Until and unless we completely redesign our society to teach, demand, and put empaths into positions of power, rather than sociopaths, this kind of "hubris" will continue