The Joe Paterno thing is surrealistic. It makes you wonder, "when will I wake up and realize that this is a bad dream.?" The bad news, we aren't dreaming, and we won't wake up. There is no good news.
What's fascinating is watching the American people, and the American media, play the blame game.
WE're all over the charts. Jerry Sandusky? Absolutely. But then, who, or what, else?
Obviously Paterno and the University president were deemed culpible, at least to some degree, although nobody can elucidate exactly to what degree.
Students at Penn State are blaming the media. Hell, why not? Yesterday, I pitched in and blamed the corporate owners of the media. Again, why not?
I'll take it one step further, the one step nobody seems willing to take. I'll blame all of us, I'll blame American society.
Jerry Sundusky wanted a career as a football coach, and Jerry Sandusky was gay. Where would his coaching career have gone had he dated other adult men, openly, and properly? We all know the answer to that. Thanks to the barbarity of American culture, nowhere. So he chose to pursue a strategy which would gratify his sex drive and be secret.
Maybe, just maybe, American culture forced him, or at least encouraged him, to a desperate strategy.
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