Nemesis is Having a Field Day w/ Liberal Elites

[marshabar1]

The Collapse of a Rotten Edifice

by Victor Davis Hanson

Nemesis is always hot on the trail of hubris, across time and space, and the goddess has been particularly busy in destroying the carefully crafted images of Bono, John Edwards, Timothy Geithner, Al Gore, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and a host of others. What do their tax hypocrisies, sexual indulgences, and aristocratic socialist lifestyles all have in common?


Collectively, they represent a self-appointed or elected global elite that oversees, lectures about — in sanctimonious fashion — the ethical responsibilities of the redistributive state.

victorhanson.com/articles/hanson061511.html

Hanson brilliantly describes the hubris involved with each.

[marshabar1]

Perhaps this image is more appropriate to the story.


Remember, it was Nemesis, in because Narcissus loved only himself cursed him to love his image in the water so much that he drowned himself in it.

[cme1201]

find a clothed picture Marha, please.

[marshabar1]

I'll try. Classical art thou knowest how it waseth back theneth.

Are you my new babysitter?

[cme1201]

I prefer Asops fables or Brothers Grimm, to narcissistic gods of Greek or Roman myth.

The Dog and the Shadow


It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was
carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way
home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he
crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the
water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of
meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at
the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of
meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen more.


Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

[marshabar1]

Indeed.
However Hanson was saying to beware of thinking you are god. Which apparently many of these elites who think they hold the world in their hands do think.

[marshabar1]

Anthony Weiner was known as a sort of Kleon-like demagogue, who shouted down or ridiculed his opponents — haughty, self-righteous, full of hyperbole about the evils of conservatives, currently hot on the trail of Justice Thomas, in efforts to bring down a Supreme Court justice.

Again, it is not the sexual weirdness, but the hypocrisy that does them in: the liberal-minded feminist on the sly sending dirty pictures to young women, while ridiculing those who claimed that the evidence suggested that he was sending dirty pictures to young women.

Nemesis might have let Weiner be had he not insulted his accusers and claimed his own perversions were his own perversions, but once he took the attack-dog route and lied, she swooped in.

Fully clothed, I might add