Updated 2 years ago
Opinion: The bottomless humiliation of Rudolph Giuliani \ CNN
Whatever your politics, it’s hard to avert your eyes here.
“The same traits that once made Giuliani so successful — his love of power and his yearning for the spotlight — now fuel his breakneck spiral downward. It’s an ironic turn straight out of a Greek drama. It was the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, after all, who observed that “a man’s character is his fate.”Giuliani is that maxim in human form.”
It’s safe to say this has been the most thorough humiliation of any celebrity we have ever witnessed – more than Qaddafi, more than Saddam Hussein. How was this possible? Through greater proliferation of electronic media.
Still, as I’ve witnessed both in my life, I wonder if alcoholism and/or dementia are playing key roles. No one could go through with he’s gone through with a clear mind. Something’s very off here, and it’s sad. Ayn Rand once said that pity is the most degrading emotion, and here I am, little me, feeling sorry for the man who was once a worldwide hero.
There’s a pattern here. First he serves a master – the Southern District of New York in his mafia busting days, and then Donald Trump – and then he takes it too far and becomes a laughingstock.
In Japan he would have performed seppuku long ago. Maybe he has been, all along. It’s that bad.
And thank GOD he never became president. “’There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11,’ Biden cracked at the time.”
See you at the Supreme Courtyard.
