Amulya gopalakrishnan biography of donald
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Its hard to tear your eyes away from splashy self-sabotage,the destruction of a reputation built over years.
Especially if theres hypocrisy involved like the priggish Tiger Woods or former New York governor Eliot Spitzer,who had publicly gone after prostitution rings until it was discovered that he was privately going after prostitutes.
Theres some satisfaction,for many,in watching high eminence trip and collapse.
Amulya Gopalakrishnan is a columnist with The Indian Express.
It is cathartic,like the Greek idea of tragedy there is a pity and fascination about the marked man. You read social pathologies into his action. You search your own life for parallels,you cluck and exclaim and mock. A scandal is,in essence,a bit of social theatre that ends up affirming conformity.
By scapegoating an errant individual and casting him out,a set of values is illustrated to a saucer-eyed audience.
But for all that,momentarily,it shows us life as it might be if we just didnt give a toss about rules an