We live in a world where a very few do bad things – with impunity. People see the deeds being committed, but don’t do anything about it because of the fame and/or stature of the perpetrator.
The media itself chooses to look the other way, as evidenced by serial paedophile Jimmy Savile who was a high rating star of the BBC, the UK’s primary media organization.
Now, after decades of his child molestation and after he has died, they admit that they knew something was terribly wrong, but didn’t like to say anything. Savile’s old boss at the BBC says that he and his colleagues were “deluded by celebrity”.
Maybe the identifying and naming of this behavior will allow us to resist the urge to be so star-struck; maybe we can summon the courage to point out the offensive behaviour as it happens, not when it is too late to do anything about it. And in all areas, not just paedophilia.
As Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
Which brings us to central banking…
Celebrity central bankers of the past and present, and enablers of central bankers around the world – I’m calling you out as monetary deviates. You are destroying not only individuals and economies, but also the fabric of our whole civilisation. Jimmy Savile had seventy-two victims; you central bankers have billions of victims.
Those who failed the backbone test and looked away from Savile’s paedophilia are now squirming as they have to explain the complicit nature of their inaction.
To preserve what is left of their integrity, the media can no longer turn a blind eye to the destructive policies of central bankers. Something is terribly wrong. To continue to act in the spirit of BBC management instructions to “keep your mouth shut he is a VIP” will come back to haunt them.