We live in a fascinating world today. Watching the news these days leaves one stunned at just how fast the human being is evolving such that it would seem many Homo Sapiens have evolved right out of their backbones.
It cannot be just me that thinks it is a steaming pile of the brown stuff for Jesse James and Tiger Woods to, as it is cleverly put, "voluntarily enroll themselves in personal rehabilitation centers".
Excuse me while I snort my laughter.
"Rehabilitation centers"? As a great man once eloquently asked me via SMS, "Dude, WTF?"
Maybe its just me but I don’t buy that bollocks for one second The talk of rehabilitation means that Tiger and Jesse are somehow not to blame for cheating on their wives and attempting to notch bedposts in their immediate environment. That somehow a demon of some sort took control and they had no control of their actions.
"Upussss!" as a watchman friend of mine is fond of sniggering.
In my humble opinion Tiger and Jesse did what they did because
- They wanted to
- They could
All this talk of rehab seems to imply that they somehow lost control of their faculties and were somehow not to blame.
Uh huh.
Let’s call a spade a spade. Every man’s default settings (up to and including men of the cloth) are to attempt precisely what those gentlemen have been doing.
Here’s the important distinction: what makes men different from animals is that they have the concept of choice. You can choose whether or not you want to play away matches, plough alternate fields, sample different wares etc.
When you get married you choose to be faithful to one woman. Contrary to popular belief there is no switch that is flicked that makes you impervious to other women. If anything a wedding ring seems to be a powerful magnet, but I digress. Point is, upende usipende, it is your responsibility to resist the forbidden fruit.
It is not easy. And people have been known to fail. It has happened. But if it does one must take responsibility for one’s actions.
Those gents chose not to be faithful so it is absurd for them to portray a pathos of patient suffering as they tell us they voluntarily checked into rehabilitation centers. Ha ha! Gentlemen, tell us another one.
Tiger and Jesse are not exceptions. We are all cowards in some way or the other (self included).
Nothing seems to be anyone’s fault.
We have lousy leadership that unites an inept president, ineffective prime minister, blonde vice president and absolutely buffoonish incompetent MPs. We didn’t vote, but somehow it is not our fault.
MPs who failed to reach consensus on the constitution have the temerity to tell us they will push for ‘No’ because they did not reach consensus. But its not their fault.
We never read the constitution draft because we were too busy making Makmende trend and so suspect amendments have been made. We didn’t keep a watch and take our leaders to task, but its not our fault there are strange amendments in the constitution.
Goldenberg? It was nobody’s fault.
Free education money that was stolen and we seem to have forgotten about? Nobody’s fault either.
Tribalism? Here we are in 2010 with politicians still talking about ‘voting as a community’. But it’s nobody’s fault we are becoming increasingly tribal by the day.
Perhaps it would save time if we simply went around wearing this T-Shirt
And chorus for This Song could be the new world anthem