Republican presidential candidate Hermann Cain has made it perfectly clear: he has no intention of answering any more questions or discussing any further the "several" sexual harassment allegations against him. Of course as of yet, he has neither answered any questions about the topic nor participated in any discussion of it - and he evidently doesn't intend to start.
He is finished with this topic, but the problem is, other people do not seem to be finished with it.
It almost seems as if Cain has forgotten, or simply doesn't understand, a simple truth: he can't control what other people talk about. He can only control what he himself talks about. His best strategy might be to talk about it so much that everyone else gets tired of talking about it.
Sometimes people get weird ideas about information. AS if they can give information to other people, then control what the recipients do with it. How many times have you been asked "can you keep a secret?" My reply is always the same "since you can't why should I?"
I have a simple rule: give me information at your own risk, because once you give it to me, its mine, it belongs to me, and I am free to do with it whatever I wish. I am not constrained by your opinion of what what I SHOULD do with it, unless I so agree.
Hermann Cain has an information attitude crisis within, and needs to make an information attitude adjustment. If he refuses to listen to others, others might refuse to listen to him. Like so many other people, he has trouble understanding and accepting the limits of his control over other people.
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