I was listening to the news today and heard a story about the World Bank's governor Paul Wolfowitz. He is the man who orchestrated the invasion of Iraq using the invisible WMD's as an excuse. They must have been really well camouflaged. Then his buddy Dubbya gave him a nice cushy job in the World Bank. As he started his job his first comment was to say how he would clean up the corruption. Well the chickens have come home to roost. On Thursday he was having to explain how he had orchestrated (read ordered) a tremendous pay raise for his girlfriend.
Here in Canada we have our very own Lord Conrad Black, who is in court with racketeering charges and may spend the rest of his life in an American prison. (It shouldn't surprise anyone since he started early on by stealing and selling exams at his school (UCC). I guess he would say that it was only capitalism at work.Exaggerated pride punished by the fates. In classical Greek ethical and religious thought, overweening presumption suggesting impious disregard of the limits governing human action in an orderly universe. It is the sin to which the great and gifted are most susceptible.
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I think they're also going to learn what 'schadenfreude' (sp?) means. Nice piece.
Ian
Ian, your spelling is right on. I didn't know this word so it is a nice addition to my vocabulary, and yes they will certainly learn what it means. I usually don't wish bad things on people but when you have a "holier than thou" attitude and feel you are better than everyone else, you can expect to get taken down a peg or two and have the common people smile over it.
I smile when this happens too. It *is* Shadenfreude, as Ian points out.
Yeah, it is nice when this happens. Unfortunately it doesn't happen often enough.
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