Saturday, December 17, 2011

When Cults Collide: How Big Sports and CEO Worship Threaten Societies


Jerry Sandusky will likely go to prison. But when values poisonous to healthy societies are fostered, crimes will continue to be committed-- and condoned.
December 13, 2011

The silence. The lack of accountability. The blind loyalty. The case of Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky (who waived his right to a hearing on Tuesday) and similar horrors have shown us that under certain circumstances, otherwise normal people will stand by in the face of crimes as heinous as systemic child abuse and child rape. How could it happen that a university would protect a football program over the lives of innocent children?

The real question is: How could it be otherwise?

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