Dave Grohl Disappoints As Another Cheater

What’s refreshing is that the comments are organic and reflect actual public opinion for once as opposed to the usual pro-cheating spin the media is currently pushing which creates the artificial impression that the public finds cheating groovy and sex-pozzy.

In fact, due to recent Gallup polls which found public disapproval for adultery has only increased over the last twenty years to the point that adultery is generally viewed as worse than controversies like abortion and human cloning, I think the pro-cheating spin in a lot of mainstream media is an obvious wag-the-dog attempt to “correct” public “disapprobation.” As I’ve spieled before (but will again for the newbies), that leaves the big question of why increased public condemnation of cheating alarms corporate media and their sponsors to such a hysterical degree.

For instance, following the last Gallup poll on this issue, the New York Times publishing a screechy editorial which clearly insinuated that increasing disapproval for adultery must relate to the scary retrograde rise of Christian radicalism in the US. Basically if you disapprove of cheating, you must be a racist religious terrorist like Timothy McVeigh. But the Times’ implication was obviously fabricated since the same people polled by Gallup showed markedly increased approval for things like gay marriage and single parenting. What that suggests is that, maybe since the self-help era, the public is gaining a more fine-tuned awareness of the negative social effects of family instability and the factors beyond overt domestic violence that cause it– including emotional abuse and infidelity.

Personally I suspect that what’s particularly threatening corporate power is the public’s more surgical understanding of what constitutes abuse and sexual consent since public views can end up as legislation. I think this is especially the case since media companies and many corporations lost umpty-millions due to #MeToo scandals. There could be a lot of reasons for this, some economic and some related to old boy patriarchy. Like how would abusive corporate hierarchies like, say, Amazon squeeze the life out of employees for profit if everyone developed a more keen understanding of gaslighting and coercive control became a criminal and sue-able offense? And now that streaming porn makes more profit than all other media combined and most media conglomerates are cross-invested (Google alone invested about $4B) in an industry that infamously thrives on the trafficking, abuse and coercion of women and children, sharper legal definitions of coercion and consent could hurt the collective bottom line.

As far as “patriarchal” motives to crank up public approval for cheating, whatever will creepy old married honchos do if the pool of eligible sidepiece bangmaids are thinned by an increasing public view that cheating is a form of domestic abuse? The dumbest potential sidedishes might shy away from the more severe reputational risk while the most sociopathic might see mate poaching as not such a great financial plan in the case too many cheaters were ending up penniless and in prison for criminal coercive control.

But that brings up the much scarier political question of “how” pervs in power have become so blatant in foisting their own subjective whims on a clearly resistant public through gonzo media campaigns, which could only be because democracy is seriously eroding, power has landed in too few hands and we’re in an age of corporate neofuedalism as many political analysts have warned.