Posted by
KsReaganite on Monday, February 21, 2011 9:29:18 PM
Not surprisingly MSNBC had a big story on the infidelity promoting site Ashley Madison dot com.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41583762/ns/business-bloomberg_businessweek/?gt1=43001
Unfortunately, the NBC subsidiary is focusing on the symptoms. Infidelity...which goes by several names at several stages of different kinds of relationships...is simply a manifestation of a society where selfishness has been upgraded to something between martyrdom and heroism. That someone in an enterprising country like ours is going to make a profit out of such debased ethics is only logical. We spend billions upon billions of dollars assuring individuals with low ethics that it is not only okay to exploit another's trust but a sign of 'freedom' to do so; I mean we all have only 'one life to live', as the trailer-park sentiment goes (in all fairness, such sentiment is equally found in suburbs too).
At least Ashley Madison should be applauded for being entrepreneurial, open and upfront about the dishonesty that is fastidiously kept under wraps in suburban living rooms, Facebook, and workplace water coolers. I would rather buy a few shares of Ashley Madison stock than give anything but sheer contempt for the amen choir of selfishness populating polite society.