The High Cost of Dishonesty: TigerWhen was the last time you voted for a single, non-married politician? Before we get to our share of examining the Tiger Woods infidelity epic, let’s start with this: major public figures are seldom allowed to be single. I don’t know if it’s a social thing, a biological thing, religious or what – but the fact is that major public figures are not allowed to be single. And that’s what Tiger Woods was/is. More than a golfer, more than an athlete – Tiger Woods was a major public figure. Why was Tiger Woods a major public figure? Because he wanted to be. Tiger was driven to be more than a great golfer and athlete – he was driven to take over the world. It’s no coincidence that he became the first billionaire athlete raking in well over $100 million each and every year for the past decade. He owns an air carrier converted into a golf course that he pilots around the ocean. And I’m sure he had plans for future domination. Since we already know that you can’t be a single man and become a true giant in the public world, Tiger went the road more travelled by – he found a wife. And not just any wife – the blonde, blue-eyed, squeaky clean daughter of privilege and politics in Sweden. He took a trophy. Which is not to say that all blonde, blue-eyed Swedish daughters are trophies – of course not. A trophy is in the eye of the beholder, and to Tiger, a man who to this day refuses to acknowledge himself as a Black athlete, blonde and blue-eyed was not only a trophy, it was a certification. Look at the women that Tiger has been carrying on with these past years. They are all exotic, multi-ethnic and overtly sexual. That’s fine! That is who they are – there is no judgment in that. But that’s who Tiger is going for. He’s not cheating on his wife with other versions of his wife. He’s cheating with more openly sexualized women. So what does this have to do with you or anything other than the unending voyeurism infecting the modern media… I’m getting to that. When it comes to our humanity, the ends never justify the means. Tiger wanted to dominate the world and to do so he went against his natural impulses towards a presentation of that which he was not. This is something that many of us do. So when the next round of breaking Tiger Woods news comes stampeding into your life, try to take a lesson from it. Not in the sleaziness of male sexuality or sports, nor in the tragedy of a family collapsing. Look at what you can learn from Tiger – Be honest with yourself and those around you… because the truth will catch up eventually. |
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